Liberty, MS
Liberty, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Liberty at the 80th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 480 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Liberty at the 82nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Liberty: 57.3% of its 480 buildings, versus 42.7% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Liberty compares
There's little gap between Liberty's 80th national percentile and its 80th percentile inside Mississippi, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Liberty ranks 6,269 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,704 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 82 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Liberty and the insurance market
Liberty's 80th-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.
Hardening a home in Liberty
Because Direct exposure dominates in Liberty (57.3%), 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 Liberty's 6,269-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Liberty, see the exposure-zones guide.