Mount Olive, MS
Mount Olive wildfire risk explained
Mount Olive's 577 buildings earn a 75th-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 Mount Olive at the 78th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Mount Olive's building exposure, zone by zone
70% of Mount Olive's 577 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 404 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 30% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Mount Olive ranks
There's little gap between Mount Olive's 75th national percentile and its 72nd percentile inside Mississippi, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Olive ranks 7,820 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,150 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 119 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mount Olive
At the 75th percentile nationally, Mount Olive carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Mount Olive's 70% 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 577 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mount Olive. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Mount Olive, see the exposure-zones guide.