Adamsville, AL
Adamsville, AL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Adamsville sits at the 74th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,614 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Adamsville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 77th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 65.4% of Adamsville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 34.6% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 1,709 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Adamsville against the rest of the country
Adamsville's 74th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 55th ranking inside Alabama does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 19 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Adamsville ranks 8,307 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,075 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 267 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Adamsville
Adamsville's 74th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Adamsville's 65.4% 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 Adamsville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,614 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Adamsville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Adamsville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.