Longview, MS
Longview, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Longview's 221 buildings earn a 62nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Longview at the 65th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Longview's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Longview: 100% of its 221 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Longview compares
Inside Mississippi, Longview sits at just the 39th percentile even though it scores 62nd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Longview ranks 11,874 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,084 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 258 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Longview's high rating (62nd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Longview's 100% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 221 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Longview. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Longview, see the exposure-zones guide.