Ruleville, MS
How exposed is Ruleville to wildfire?
Ruleville's 1,011 buildings earn a 26th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ruleville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 25th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 67.3% of Ruleville's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 32.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Ruleville compares
Ruleville ranks lower within Mississippi (8th percentile statewide) than its 26th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ruleville ranks 23,197 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,854 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 387 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Ruleville and the insurance market
Ruleville's moderate rating (26th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 67.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Ruleville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ruleville's 23,197-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Ruleville, see the exposure-zones guide.