Blountville, TN
How exposed is Blountville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Blountville lands at the 69th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,524 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Blountville at the 74th percentile, close to its 69th-percentile risk score.
Where Blountville's buildings actually sit
1,524 buildings are counted in Blountville, and 65.1% 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% rated Minimal.
Where Blountville ranks
There's little gap between Blountville's 69th national percentile and its 64th percentile inside Tennessee, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blountville ranks 9,716 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,067 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 180 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Blountville and the insurance market
Blountville's high rating (69th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Blountville's 65.1% 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 Blountville's 9,716-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Blountville, see the exposure-zones guide.