Sardis, MS
Sardis, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Sardis at the 77th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,004 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sardis's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 80th percentile nationally.
Where Sardis's buildings actually sit
1,004 buildings are counted in Sardis, and 62.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 38% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Sardis against the rest of the country
Sardis scores 77th nationally and 76th 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, Sardis ranks 7,218 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,904 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 104 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sardis
Sardis's 77th-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 Sardis
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Sardis (62.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Sardis's 77th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Sardis, see the exposure-zones guide.