Falkville, AL
Falkville, AL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Falkville's 736 buildings earn a 52nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Falkville at the 56th percentile, close to its 52nd-percentile risk score.
Falkville's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Falkville's buildings (54.4%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Falkville against the rest of the country
Inside Alabama, Falkville sits at just the 8th percentile even though it scores 52nd 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, Falkville ranks 15,210 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,255 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 546 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Falkville
At the 52nd national percentile, Falkville rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Falkville's 54.4% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Falkville's 15,210-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Falkville, see the exposure-zones guide.