New Houlka, MS
New Houlka wildfire risk explained
USFS scores New Houlka at the 65th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 443 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, New Houlka's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 68th percentile nationally.
New Houlka's building exposure, zone by zone
443 buildings are counted in New Houlka, and 52.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 47.9% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How New Houlka compares
New Houlka's 65th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 45th ranking inside Mississippi does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 20 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Houlka ranks 10,969 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,397 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 231 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New Houlka
New Houlka'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.
Hardening a home in New Houlka
New Houlka's 52.1% 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
New Houlka's 65th-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 New Houlka, see the exposure-zones guide.