Sunflower, MS
How exposed is Sunflower to wildfire?
USFS scores Sunflower 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 380 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sunflower at the 31st percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
Sunflower's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 75.8% of Sunflower's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 24.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Sunflower ranks
Sunflower's 31st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 10th ranking inside Mississippi does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 21 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sunflower ranks 21,773 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,650 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 378 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sunflower
At the 31st national percentile, Sunflower rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Sunflower's 75.8% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 380 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sunflower. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Sunflower, see the exposure-zones guide.