Greenville, AL
Greenville wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Greenville at the 57th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 3,810 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Greenville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 58th percentile nationally.
Where Greenville's buildings actually sit
Of Greenville's 3,810 counted buildings, 66.5% 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 Greenville compares
Inside Alabama, Greenville sits at just the 17th percentile even though it scores 57th 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, Greenville ranks 13,509 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,414 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 491 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Greenville and the insurance market
Greenville's elevated wildfire rating (57th 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 Greenville
Because Direct exposure dominates in Greenville (66.5%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Greenville's figures come from
Greenville's 57th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Greenville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.