Seminary, MS
Seminary wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Seminary lands at the 82nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 282 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Seminary's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 84th percentile nationally.
Where Seminary's buildings actually sit
Of Seminary's 282 counted buildings, 64.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Seminary ranks
Seminary's risk sits at a similar level relative to Mississippi (84th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (82nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Seminary ranks 5,703 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,121 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 67 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Seminary and the insurance market
Seminary's very high rating (82nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Seminary
With 64.2% of Seminary in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Seminary's 82nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Seminary, see the exposure-zones guide.