Geiger, AL
Geiger, AL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Geiger's 114 buildings earn a 60th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Geiger's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 63rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Geiger's 114 counted buildings, 73.7% 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.
How Geiger compares
Inside Alabama, Geiger sits at just the 26th percentile even though it scores 60th 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, Geiger ranks 12,625 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,435 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 438 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Geiger and the insurance market
Geiger's elevated wildfire rating (60th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Geiger
Geiger's 73.7% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 114 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Geiger. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Geiger, see the exposure-zones guide.