Tillatoba, MS
Tillatoba, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Tillatoba at the 76th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 74 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 Tillatoba at the 78th percentile, close to its 76th-percentile risk score.
Where Tillatoba's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 96% of Tillatoba's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 4.1% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 71 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Tillatoba against the rest of the country
Tillatoba's risk sits at a similar level relative to Mississippi (74th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (76th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tillatoba ranks 7,531 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,136 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 111 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Tillatoba and the insurance market
Tillatoba's high rating (76th 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 Tillatoba
With 96% of Tillatoba 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tillatoba's 7,531-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Tillatoba, see the exposure-zones guide.