New Hamilton, MS
How exposed is New Hamilton to wildfire?
USFS scores New Hamilton at the 51st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 452 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts New Hamilton at the 54th percentile, close to its 51st-percentile risk score.
Where New Hamilton's buildings actually sit
67.7% of New Hamilton's 452 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 306 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 32.3% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How New Hamilton compares
New Hamilton's 51st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 20th ranking inside Mississippi does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 31 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Hamilton ranks 15,313 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,237 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 336 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New Hamilton
At the 51st national percentile, New Hamilton rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 67.7% of New Hamilton in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind New Hamilton's 15,313-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond New Hamilton, see the exposure-zones guide.