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Cedar Hill, TN

Cedar Hill, TN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers

Low
16thpercentile nationally

Cedar Hill's 230 buildings earn a 16th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)

Separately from the risk score above, Cedar Hill's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 17th percentile nationally.

Where Cedar Hill's buildings actually sit

230Total buildings
78.3%Direct exposure
21.7%Indirect exposure
0%Minimal exposure

USFS classifies 78.3% of Cedar Hill's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 21.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 180 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.

Where Cedar Hill ranks

Cedar Hill's risk sits at a similar level relative to Tennessee (4th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (16th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cedar Hill ranks 26,613 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,806 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 484 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.

Shopping for coverage in Cedar Hill

Cedar Hill's low rating (16th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.

Hardening a home in Cedar Hill

Cedar Hill's 78.3% 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

Cedar Hill's 16th-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 Cedar Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.