Oakland, MS
Oakland wildfire risk explained
Oakland's 369 buildings earn a 77th-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 Oakland at the 79th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Oakland's buildings actually sit
Of Oakland's 369 counted buildings, 68.6% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Oakland compares
Oakland scores 77th nationally and 74th 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, Oakland ranks 7,410 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,886 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 109 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Oakland
At the 77th percentile nationally, Oakland 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
With 68.6% of Oakland 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 Oakland's 7,410-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Oakland, see the exposure-zones guide.