Magee, MS
Magee wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Magee at the 72nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 2,056 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Magee's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 75th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Magee's buildings (56.3%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Magee ranks
There's little gap between Magee's 72nd national percentile and its 65th percentile inside Mississippi, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Magee ranks 8,726 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,323 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 146 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Magee and the insurance market
Magee's 72nd-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.
Hardening a home in Magee
Magee's 56.3% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Magee's 72nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Magee, see the exposure-zones guide.