Weir, MS
Weir wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Weir at the 69th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 290 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Weir at the 71st national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Weir's 290 counted buildings, 84.1% 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.
Weir against the rest of the country
Weir's 69th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 53rd ranking inside Mississippi does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 16 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Weir ranks 9,864 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,912 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 200 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Weir
Weir's high rating (69th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Weir's 84.1% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 290 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Weir. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Weir, see the exposure-zones guide.