Winterville, MS
How exposed is Winterville to wildfire?
USFS scores Winterville at the 12th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 113 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Winterville at the 11th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
56.6% of Winterville's 113 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 36.3% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Winterville ranks
There's little gap between Winterville's 12th national percentile and its 3rd percentile inside Mississippi, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Winterville ranks 27,611 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,506 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 407 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Winterville
Winterville's low wildfire rating (12th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 56.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Winterville 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
Winterville's 12th-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 Winterville, see the exposure-zones guide.