Babbie, AL
How exposed is Babbie to wildfire?
USFS scores Babbie at the 71st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 606 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Babbie at the 73rd percentile, close to its 71st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Babbie's 606 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Babbie ranks
Babbie's 71st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 48th ranking inside Alabama does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 22 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Babbie ranks 9,253 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,744 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 307 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Babbie
Babbie's 71st-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Babbie (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Babbie's 9,253-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Babbie, see the exposure-zones guide.