Deer Park, AL
How exposed is Deer Park to wildfire?
Deer Park's 114 buildings earn a 87th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Deer Park at the 89th percentile, close to its 87th-percentile risk score.
Deer Park's building exposure, zone by zone
100% of Deer Park's 114 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 114 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Deer Park compares
There's little gap between Deer Park's 87th national percentile and its 91st percentile inside Alabama, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Deer Park ranks 4,209 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,434 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 54 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Deer Park and the insurance market
At the 87th percentile nationally, Deer Park carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Deer Park
Deer Park's 100% 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.
Where Deer Park's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Deer Park's 4,209-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Deer Park's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.