Kosciusko, MS
How exposed is Kosciusko to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kosciusko at the 72nd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 3,169 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kosciusko at the 75th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Kosciusko's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Kosciusko's 3,169 counted buildings, 68.4% carry Direct exposure and only 0.7% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Kosciusko against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Kosciusko's 72nd national percentile and its 65th percentile inside Mississippi, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kosciusko ranks 8,767 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,202 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 147 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kosciusko
Kosciusko's 72nd-percentile, 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 68.4% of Kosciusko 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.
More on how this number was built
Kosciusko's 72nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Kosciusko, see the exposure-zones guide.