Berry, AL
How exposed is Berry to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Berry at the 70th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 848 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Berry at the 73rd national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Berry's buildings actually sit
82.7% of Berry's 848 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 701 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 17.3% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Berry ranks
Inside Alabama, Berry sits at just the 45th percentile even though it scores 70th 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, Berry ranks 9,569 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,175 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 325 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Berry
Berry's 70th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 82.7% of Berry in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 848 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Berry. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Berry, see the exposure-zones guide.