Mound Bayou, MS
Mound Bayou, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Mound Bayou sits at the 17th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 713 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mound Bayou at the 16th percentile, close to its 17th-percentile risk score.
Mound Bayou's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 16.7% of Mound Bayou's 713 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 83.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Mound Bayou compares
Mound Bayou scores 17th nationally and 6th 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, Mound Bayou ranks 26,100 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,530 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 397 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mound Bayou
At the 17th national percentile, Mound Bayou rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Mound Bayou's 83.3% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Mound Bayou's 17th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Mound Bayou, see the exposure-zones guide.