Clarksville, TN
How exposed is Clarksville to wildfire?
Clarksville sits at the 28th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 57,037 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Clarksville at the 30th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
Clarksville's building exposure, zone by zone
57,037 buildings are counted in Clarksville, and 46.4% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 18.2% rated Minimal. At 57,037 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Clarksville compares
There's little gap between Clarksville's 28th national percentile and its 13th percentile inside Tennessee, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Clarksville ranks 22,834 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 142 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 435 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Clarksville
Clarksville's moderate wildfire rating (28th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Clarksville
Because Direct exposure dominates in Clarksville (46.4%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Clarksville's 22,834-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Clarksville, see the exposure-zones guide.