Walnut Grove, MS
Walnut Grove, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Walnut Grove's 348 buildings earn a 68th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Walnut Grove at the 71st percentile, close to its 68th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Walnut Grove's 348 counted buildings, 63.8% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Walnut Grove compares
Inside Mississippi, Walnut Grove sits at just the 50th percentile even though it scores 68th 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, Walnut Grove ranks 10,150 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,368 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 209 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
At the 68th percentile nationally, Walnut Grove carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Walnut Grove's 63.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Walnut Grove's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Walnut Grove's 10,150-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Walnut Grove's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.