Redwater, MS
Redwater wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Redwater lands at the 73rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 279 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Redwater at the 76th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Redwater's buildings actually sit
99.3% of Redwater's 279 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 277 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0.7% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Redwater ranks
Redwater scores 73rd nationally and 67th 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, Redwater ranks 8,473 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,223 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 141 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Redwater and the insurance market
Redwater's 73rd-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 99.3% of Redwater 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.
Where Redwater's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Redwater's 8,473-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Redwater's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.