Brook Highland, AL
How exposed is Brook Highland to wildfire?
Brook Highland's 1,402 buildings earn a 66th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Brook Highland's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 69th percentile nationally.
Brook Highland's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Brook Highland's buildings (81%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Brook Highland ranks
Inside Alabama, Brook Highland sits at just the 37th percentile even though it scores 66th 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, Brook Highland ranks 10,829 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,618 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 373 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brook Highland
Brook Highland's 66th-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.
Hardening a home in Brook Highland
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Brook Highland (81% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Brook Highland's figures come from
Brook Highland's 66th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brook Highland's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.