Cornersville, TN
How exposed is Cornersville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Cornersville at the 33rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 825 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cornersville at the 36th percentile, close to its 33rd-percentile risk score.
Where Cornersville's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 84.2% of Cornersville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 15.8% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 695 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Cornersville against the rest of the country
Cornersville scores 33rd nationally and 22nd within Tennessee — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cornersville ranks 21,067 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,402 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 390 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cornersville
At the 33rd national percentile, Cornersville 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
Cornersville's 84.2% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 825 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Cornersville. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Cornersville, see the exposure-zones guide.