Scott, MS
How exposed is Scott to wildfire?
USFS scores Scott at the 29th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 112 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Scott's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 30th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 44.6% of Scott's 112 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 28.6% Direct and 26.8% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Scott compares
Inside Mississippi, Scott sits at just the 8th percentile even though it scores 29th 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, Scott ranks 22,408 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,543 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 385 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Scott
At the 29th national percentile, Scott 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
Scott's 44.6% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Scott's 22,408-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Scott, see the exposure-zones guide.