Poplarville, MS
How exposed is Poplarville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Poplarville at the 93rd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,415 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Poplarville at the 95th percentile, close to its 93rd-percentile risk score.
Poplarville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 71.1% of Poplarville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 28.9% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 1,006 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Poplarville compares
There's little gap between Poplarville's 93rd national percentile and its 96th percentile inside Mississippi, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Poplarville ranks 2,268 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,562 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 19 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Poplarville
At the 93rd percentile nationally, Poplarville carries the very 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Poplarville's 71.1% 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 1,415 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Poplarville. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Poplarville, see the exposure-zones guide.