East Cleveland, TN
East Cleveland wildfire risk explained
East Cleveland sits at the 56th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 953 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks East Cleveland at the 61st national percentile — 5 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
East Cleveland's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 37.2% of East Cleveland's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 31.2% Direct and 31.7% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
East Cleveland against the rest of the country
East Cleveland scores 56th nationally and 50th 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, East Cleveland ranks 13,750 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,289 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 250 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in East Cleveland
East Cleveland's elevated wildfire rating (56th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
East Cleveland's 37.2% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 953 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Cleveland. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond East Cleveland, see the exposure-zones guide.