Green Hill, TN
How exposed is Green Hill to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Green Hill lands at the 15th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 2,837 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Green Hill at the 17th percentile, close to its 15th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 65.4% of Green Hill's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 34.4% Indirect share and far above its 0.3% Minimal share — a profile where 1,855 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Green Hill against the rest of the country
Green Hill scores 15th nationally and 3rd within Tennessee — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Green Hill ranks 26,739 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,685 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 485 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Green Hill's low rating (15th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 65.4% of Green Hill 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 Green Hill's 26,739-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Green Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.