Tunica Resorts, MS
Tunica Resorts wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Tunica Resorts at the 40th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 643 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tunica Resorts at the 42nd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Tunica Resorts's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Tunica Resorts's buildings (53.5% of 643) 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.
Tunica Resorts against the rest of the country
Inside Mississippi, Tunica Resorts sits at just the 15th percentile even though it scores 40th 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 Resorts ranks 18,783 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,283 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 359 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Tunica Resorts and the insurance market
Tunica Resorts's elevated rating (40th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 53.5% of Tunica Resorts outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Tunica Resorts's figures come from
Tunica Resorts's 40th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Tunica Resorts's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.