Leakesville, MS
Leakesville, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Leakesville's 946 buildings earn a 87th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Leakesville at the 89th percentile, close to its 87th-percentile risk score.
Leakesville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 65.4% of Leakesville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 34.6% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 619 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Leakesville against the rest of the country
Leakesville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Mississippi (91st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (87th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Leakesville ranks 4,193 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,331 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 42 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Leakesville and the insurance market
At the 87th percentile nationally, Leakesville 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
Leakesville's 65.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Leakesville's 87th-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 Leakesville, see the exposure-zones guide.