Gulfport, MS
Gulfport wildfire risk explained
Gulfport's 34,323 buildings earn a 91st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Gulfport at the 92nd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
55.2% of Gulfport's 34,323 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 21.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 34,323 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Gulfport ranks
Gulfport's risk sits at a similar level relative to Mississippi (93rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (91st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gulfport ranks 2,807 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 317 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 32 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Gulfport
Gulfport's very high rating (91st 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 55.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Gulfport gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Gulfport's 91st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Gulfport, see the exposure-zones guide.