Long Beach, MS
Long Beach, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Long Beach sits at the 95th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 7,886 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Long Beach's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 95th percentile nationally.
Long Beach's building exposure, zone by zone
Long Beach rates 63.9% Minimal exposure against just 30.1% Direct and 6.1% Indirect — of 7,886 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 7,886 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Long Beach compares
Long Beach scores 95th nationally and 97th 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, Long Beach ranks 1,729 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,150 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 13 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Long Beach and the insurance market
Long Beach's very high rating (95th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 63.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Long Beach gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Long Beach's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Long Beach's 1,729-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Long Beach's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.