East Ridge, TN
East Ridge, TN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
East Ridge sits at the 62nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 8,938 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts East Ridge at the 67th percentile, close to its 62nd-percentile risk score.
Where East Ridge's buildings actually sit
East Ridge rates 78% Minimal exposure against just 21.8% Direct and 0.2% Indirect — of 8,938 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 8,938 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
East Ridge against the rest of the country
There's little gap between East Ridge's 62nd national percentile and its 54th percentile inside Tennessee, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Ridge ranks 12,079 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,862 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 234 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in East Ridge
East Ridge's high rating (62nd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 78% of East Ridge outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 8,938 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Ridge. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond East Ridge, see the exposure-zones guide.