Fredonia, AL
Fredonia wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Fredonia at the 78th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 225 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Fredonia's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 81st percentile nationally.
Fredonia's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Fredonia's 225 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Fredonia ranks
There's little gap between Fredonia's 78th national percentile and its 70th percentile inside Alabama, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fredonia ranks 6,889 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,936 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 180 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Fredonia's high rating (78th 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
With 100% of Fredonia in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fredonia's 6,889-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Fredonia, see the exposure-zones guide.