Tunica, MS
Tunica, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Tunica's 585 buildings earn a 23rd-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tunica at the 24th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Tunica's buildings actually sit
Most of Tunica's buildings (75.7% of 585) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Tunica compares
Inside Mississippi, Tunica sits at just the 6th percentile even though it scores 23rd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tunica ranks 24,397 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,032 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 393 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Tunica's moderate rating (23rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Tunica
With 75.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Tunica gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Tunica's 23rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Tunica, see the exposure-zones guide.