Brownsville, TN
Brownsville wildfire risk explained
Brownsville's 4,454 buildings earn a 32nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brownsville at the 33rd percentile, close to its 32nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 25.6% of Brownsville's 4,454 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0.5% carry Indirect; the remaining 73.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Brownsville against the rest of the country
Brownsville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Tennessee (22nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (32nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brownsville ranks 21,316 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,834 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 394 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Brownsville and the insurance market
At the 32nd national percentile, Brownsville rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Brownsville's 73.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Brownsville's 32nd-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 Brownsville, see the exposure-zones guide.