Gladeville, TN
Gladeville, TN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Gladeville sits at the 27th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 755 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Gladeville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 29th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Gladeville's 755 counted buildings, 81.1% 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 Gladeville ranks
Gladeville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Tennessee (12th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (27th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gladeville ranks 23,116 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,071 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 441 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Gladeville and the insurance market
Gladeville's moderate wildfire rating (27th 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 Gladeville
Because Direct exposure dominates in Gladeville (81.1%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gladeville's 23,116-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Gladeville, see the exposure-zones guide.