Haleyville, AL
Haleyville, AL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Haleyville lands at the 68th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 2,581 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Haleyville at the 71st national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Haleyville's building exposure, zone by zone
51.8% of Haleyville's 2,581 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 1,336 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 48.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Haleyville against the rest of the country
Haleyville's 68th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 42nd ranking inside Alabama does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 26 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Haleyville ranks 10,136 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,135 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 347 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Haleyville
Haleyville's 68th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Haleyville
Haleyville's 51.8% 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.
Where Haleyville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,581 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Haleyville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Haleyville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.