Brent, AL
Brent wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Brent at the 67th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,720 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brent at the 70th percentile, close to its 67th-percentile risk score.
Where Brent's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 68.4% of Brent's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 31.6% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 1,177 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Brent compares
Brent's 67th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 40th ranking inside Alabama does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 27 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brent ranks 10,261 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,337 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 353 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Brent and the insurance market
Brent's 67th-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 68.4% of Brent 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brent's 10,261-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Brent, see the exposure-zones guide.