Alamo, TN
Alamo wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Alamo at the 13th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,338 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Alamo at the 14th percentile, close to its 13th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 45.7% of Alamo's 1,338 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 54.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Alamo compares
Alamo scores 13th nationally and 3rd within Tennessee — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Alamo ranks 27,311 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,892 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 489 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Alamo
At the 13th national percentile, Alamo rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 54.3% of Alamo outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Alamo's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,338 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Alamo. The exposure-zones guide covers what Alamo's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.