Beaverton, AL
How exposed is Beaverton to wildfire?
Beaverton sits at the 58th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 192 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Beaverton at the 60th percentile, close to its 58th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
83.9% of Beaverton's 192 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 161 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 16.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Beaverton ranks
Inside Alabama, Beaverton sits at just the 21st percentile even though it scores 58th 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, Beaverton ranks 13,193 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,146 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 468 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Beaverton and the insurance market
Beaverton's elevated rating (58th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Beaverton
Beaverton's 83.9% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Beaverton's 13,193-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Beaverton, see the exposure-zones guide.