Woodville, MS
How exposed is Woodville to wildfire?
Woodville's 681 buildings earn a 70th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Woodville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 71st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Woodville's buildings (56.1%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Woodville compares
Woodville scores 70th nationally and 56th 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, Woodville ranks 9,523 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,850 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 185 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Woodville
At the 70th percentile nationally, Woodville 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
Because 56.1% of Woodville's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Woodville's 70th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Woodville, see the exposure-zones guide.