Fort Rucker, AL
Fort Rucker wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Fort Rucker at the 46th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,509 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Fort Rucker's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 48th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Fort Rucker (81.7% of 1,509 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 18.3% sit in the Direct zone.
How Fort Rucker compares
Inside Alabama, Fort Rucker sits at just the 5th percentile even though it scores 46th 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, Fort Rucker ranks 16,880 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,122 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 562 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Fort Rucker and the insurance market
Fort Rucker's elevated rating (46th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Fort Rucker's 81.7% 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 Fort Rucker's 16,880-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Fort Rucker, see the exposure-zones guide.