Hide-A-Way Lake, MS
Hide-A-Way Lake wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hide-A-Way Lake at the 90th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,056 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hide-A-Way Lake at the 92nd national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Hide-A-Way Lake's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Hide-A-Way Lake's 1,056 counted buildings, 75.8% carry Direct exposure and only 2.7% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Hide-A-Way Lake against the rest of the country
Hide-A-Way Lake scores 90th nationally and 91st 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, Hide-A-Way Lake ranks 3,217 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,558 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 37 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Hide-A-Way Lake and the insurance market
Hide-A-Way Lake's 90th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 75.8% of Hide-A-Way Lake in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Hide-A-Way Lake's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hide-A-Way Lake's 3,217-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Hide-A-Way Lake's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.