Boligee, AL
Boligee wildfire risk explained
Boligee's 226 buildings earn a 53rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Boligee at the 56th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Boligee's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Boligee's 226 counted buildings, 99.1% 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.
Boligee against the rest of the country
Boligee's 53rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 10th ranking inside Alabama does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 44 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Boligee ranks 14,674 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,903 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 536 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Boligee's elevated rating (53rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Boligee's 99.1% 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
Boligee's 53rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Boligee, see the exposure-zones guide.