Roxie, MS
Roxie, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Roxie's 356 buildings earn a 75th-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 Roxie at the 77th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Roxie's buildings actually sit
356 buildings are counted in Roxie, and 66.3% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Roxie against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Roxie's 75th national percentile and its 71st percentile inside Mississippi, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Roxie ranks 7,915 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,162 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 121 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Roxie's 75th-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.
Hardening a home in Roxie
Because Direct exposure dominates in Roxie (66.3%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Roxie's 7,915-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Roxie, see the exposure-zones guide.