Symonds, MS
Symonds wildfire risk explained
Symonds sits at the 4th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 60 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Symonds at the 4th percentile, close to its 4th-percentile risk score.
Symonds's building exposure, zone by zone
Symonds rates 66.7% Minimal exposure against just 33.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 60 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Symonds against the rest of the country
Symonds scores 4th nationally and 1st within Mississippi — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Symonds ranks 30,328 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,651 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 417 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Symonds
Symonds's low wildfire rating (4th 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
Symonds's 66.7% 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.
Where Symonds's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Symonds's 30,328-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Symonds's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.