Kokomo, MS
How exposed is Kokomo to wildfire?
USFS scores Kokomo at the 86th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 136 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kokomo at the 88th percentile, close to its 86th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
136 buildings are counted in Kokomo, and 97.8% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Kokomo against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Kokomo's 86th national percentile and its 89th percentile inside Mississippi, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kokomo ranks 4,440 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,450 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 46 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kokomo
At the 86th percentile nationally, Kokomo carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Kokomo (97.8%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kokomo's 4,440-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Kokomo, see the exposure-zones guide.