Gunnison, MS
Gunnison wildfire risk explained
Gunnison's 228 buildings earn a 38th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Gunnison at the 40th percentile, close to its 38th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
70.2% of Gunnison's 228 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 29.8% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Gunnison compares
Gunnison's 38th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 13th ranking inside Mississippi does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 25 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gunnison ranks 19,414 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,859 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 365 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Gunnison
Gunnison's moderate wildfire rating (38th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Gunnison
Because 70.2% of Gunnison's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gunnison's 19,414-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Gunnison, see the exposure-zones guide.