Counce, TN
How exposed is Counce to wildfire?
USFS scores Counce at the 66th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 315 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Counce at the 69th percentile, close to its 66th-percentile risk score.
Where Counce's buildings actually sit
315 buildings are counted in Counce, and 75.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Counce ranks
Counce scores 66th nationally and 58th 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, Counce ranks 10,664 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,242 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 210 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Counce and the insurance market
Counce's high rating (66th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 75.6% of Counce in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Counce's 10,664-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Counce, see the exposure-zones guide.