Autaugaville, AL
How exposed is Autaugaville to wildfire?
USFS scores Autaugaville at the 57th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 729 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Autaugaville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 60th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
729 buildings are counted in Autaugaville, and 85.9% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0.1% rated Minimal.
How Autaugaville compares
Inside Alabama, Autaugaville sits at just the 18th percentile even though it scores 57th 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, Autaugaville ranks 13,445 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,343 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 485 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Autaugaville and the insurance market
Autaugaville's elevated wildfire rating (57th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Autaugaville's 85.9% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 729 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Autaugaville. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Autaugaville, see the exposure-zones guide.