Brighton, AL
Brighton wildfire risk explained
Brighton's 1,546 buildings earn a 56th-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 Brighton at the 60th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Brighton's buildings actually sit
89.3% of Brighton's 1,546 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 10.7% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Brighton compares
Inside Alabama, Brighton sits at just the 13th percentile even though it scores 56th 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, Brighton ranks 13,918 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,964 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 513 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brighton
At the 56th national percentile, Brighton rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 89.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Brighton gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Brighton's 56th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Brighton, see the exposure-zones guide.