Silver City, MS
Silver City, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Silver City's 142 buildings earn a 38th-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, Silver City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 39th percentile nationally.
Where Silver City's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Silver City: 53.5% of its 142 buildings, versus 13.4% Indirect and 33.1% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Silver City against the rest of the country
Silver City's 38th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 13th ranking inside Mississippi does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 25 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Silver City ranks 19,445 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,213 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 367 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Silver City and the insurance market
Silver City's moderate wildfire rating (38th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Silver City
With 53.5% of Silver City 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 142 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Silver City. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Silver City, see the exposure-zones guide.