Gulf Park Estates, MS
Gulf Park Estates wildfire risk explained
Gulf Park Estates sits at the 95th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,602 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Gulf Park Estates at the 94th percentile, close to its 95th-percentile risk score.
Where Gulf Park Estates's buildings actually sit
Only 31.8% of Gulf Park Estates's 2,602 buildings carry Direct exposure and 23.9% carry Indirect; the remaining 44.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Gulf Park Estates compares
Gulf Park Estates scores 95th nationally and 98th within Mississippi — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gulf Park Estates ranks 1,545 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,095 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 9 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Gulf Park Estates
Gulf Park Estates's very high rating (95th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
With 44.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Gulf Park Estates gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Gulf Park Estates's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,602 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Gulf Park Estates. The exposure-zones guide covers what Gulf Park Estates's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.