Fayetteville, AL
How exposed is Fayetteville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Fayetteville lands at the 81st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 1,087 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fayetteville at the 84th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Fayetteville's buildings actually sit
Of Fayetteville's 1,087 counted buildings, 94.7% carry Direct exposure and only 4.4% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Fayetteville against the rest of the country
Fayetteville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Alabama (77th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (81st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fayetteville ranks 6,071 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,355 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 137 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Fayetteville and the insurance market
Fayetteville's 81st-percentile, very 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.
Hardening a home in Fayetteville
Fayetteville's 94.7% 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 Fayetteville's 6,071-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Fayetteville, see the exposure-zones guide.