Lynchburg, MS
Lynchburg, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lynchburg at the 65th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,056 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lynchburg at the 67th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Lynchburg's buildings actually sit
1,056 buildings are counted in Lynchburg, and 52.7% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Lynchburg ranks
Lynchburg's 65th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 44th ranking inside Mississippi does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 21 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lynchburg ranks 11,188 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,559 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 238 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lynchburg
Lynchburg's 65th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Lynchburg (52.7%), 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,056 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lynchburg. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Lynchburg, see the exposure-zones guide.