Attalla, AL
How exposed is Attalla to wildfire?
Attalla sits at the 75th 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 3,408 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Attalla at the 78th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Attalla's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 74.4% of Attalla's 3,408 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 25.6% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Attalla ranks
Inside Alabama, Attalla sits at just the 58th percentile even though it scores 75th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Attalla ranks 7,992 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,905 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 250 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Attalla and the insurance market
Attalla's high rating (75th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 74.4% of Attalla'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Attalla's 7,992-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Attalla, see the exposure-zones guide.