Double Springs, AL
How exposed is Double Springs to wildfire?
USFS scores Double Springs at the 74th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 783 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Double Springs's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 78th percentile nationally.
Where Double Springs's buildings actually sit
783 buildings are counted in Double Springs, and 77.9% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0.4% rated Minimal.
Where Double Springs ranks
Inside Alabama, Double Springs sits at just the 56th percentile even though it scores 74th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Double Springs ranks 8,118 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,783 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 258 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Double Springs's 74th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Double Springs's 77.9% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Double Springs's 8,118-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Double Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.