Purvis, MS
Purvis, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Purvis at the 90th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,337 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 Purvis at the 93rd percentile, close to its 90th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Purvis's 1,337 counted buildings, 58.3% 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.
Where Purvis ranks
Purvis scores 90th nationally and 92nd 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, Purvis ranks 3,028 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,895 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 36 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Purvis
At the 90th percentile nationally, Purvis 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Purvis's 58.3% 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
Purvis's 90th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Purvis, see the exposure-zones guide.