Stonewall, MS
Stonewall wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Stonewall at the 60th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 689 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Stonewall at the 62nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Stonewall's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Stonewall: 75% of its 689 buildings, versus 25% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Stonewall ranks
Stonewall ranks lower within Mississippi (34th percentile statewide) than its 60th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Stonewall ranks 12,609 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,768 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 276 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Stonewall and the insurance market
Stonewall's elevated wildfire rating (60th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Stonewall's 75% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Stonewall's 12,609-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Stonewall, see the exposure-zones guide.