Goshen, AL
Goshen, AL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Goshen at the 50th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 308 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Goshen at the 52nd percentile, close to its 50th-percentile risk score.
Goshen's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 64.3% of Goshen's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 35.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 198 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Goshen compares
Inside Alabama, Goshen sits at just the 6th percentile even though it scores 50th 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, Goshen ranks 15,903 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,410 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 554 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Goshen
Goshen's elevated wildfire rating (50th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Goshen's 64.3% 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 308 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Goshen. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Goshen, see the exposure-zones guide.