Schlater, MS
Schlater, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Schlater at the 31st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 191 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Schlater's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 32nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 47.6% of Schlater's 191 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 52.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Schlater compares
Inside Mississippi, Schlater sits at just the 10th percentile even though it scores 31st 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, Schlater ranks 21,838 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,206 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 379 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Schlater
At the 31st national percentile, Schlater rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 52.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Schlater 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
Schlater's 31st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Schlater, see the exposure-zones guide.