Belle Fontaine, AL
How exposed is Belle Fontaine to wildfire?
USFS scores Belle Fontaine at the 94th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 356 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Belle Fontaine at the 94th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Belle Fontaine's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Belle Fontaine: 98.9% of its 356 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 1.1% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Belle Fontaine against the rest of the country
Belle Fontaine scores 94th nationally and 100th within Alabama — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Belle Fontaine ranks 1,972 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,149 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 2 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Belle Fontaine
Belle Fontaine's very high rating (94th 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.
Hardening a home in Belle Fontaine
Belle Fontaine's 98.9% 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.
Where Belle Fontaine's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Belle Fontaine's 1,972-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Belle Fontaine's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.