Raleigh, MS
Raleigh, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Raleigh at the 68th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 735 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 Raleigh at the 71st percentile, close to its 68th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 89.5% of Raleigh's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 10.5% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 658 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Raleigh compares
Inside Mississippi, Raleigh sits at just the 51st percentile even though it scores 68th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Raleigh ranks 10,054 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,276 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 206 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Raleigh and the insurance market
Raleigh's high rating (68th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Raleigh's 89.5% 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
Raleigh's 68th-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 Raleigh, see the exposure-zones guide.