Gordonville, AL
Gordonville wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Gordonville at the 60th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 207 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Gordonville at the 63rd national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Gordonville: 100% of its 207 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Gordonville compares
Inside Alabama, Gordonville sits at just the 27th 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, Gordonville ranks 12,468 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,582 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 430 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Gordonville and the insurance market
Gordonville's high rating (60th 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.
Hardening a home in Gordonville
With 100% of Gordonville 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
Gordonville's 60th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Gordonville, see the exposure-zones guide.