Alexander City, AL
Alexander City, AL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Alexander City lands at the 86th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 7,876 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Alexander City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 88th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Alexander City's 7,876 counted buildings, 81.8% carry Direct exposure and only 1.1% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first. At 7,876 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Alexander City against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Alexander City's 86th national percentile and its 90th percentile inside Alabama, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Alexander City ranks 4,525 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,152 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 62 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Alexander City and the insurance market
Alexander City's very high rating (86th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 81.8% of Alexander City in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Alexander City's 86th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Alexander City, see the exposure-zones guide.