Winstonville, MS
Winstonville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Winstonville at the 14th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 117 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Winstonville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 12th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Winstonville's buildings (83.8% of 117) 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.
Where Winstonville ranks
Winstonville scores 14th nationally and 4th within Mississippi — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Winstonville ranks 27,267 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,313 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 404 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
Winstonville's low wildfire rating (14th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Winstonville
With 83.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Winstonville 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Winstonville's 27,267-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Winstonville, see the exposure-zones guide.