Halls (Knox), TN
How exposed is Halls (Knox) to wildfire?
USFS scores Halls (Knox) at the 73rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 4,915 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Halls (Knox) at the 77th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Halls (Knox)'s building exposure, zone by zone
4,915 buildings are counted in Halls (Knox), and 42.6% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 33.9% in Direct exposure or the 23.5% rated Minimal.
Where Halls (Knox) ranks
There's little gap between Halls (Knox)'s 73rd national percentile and its 71st percentile inside Tennessee, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Halls (Knox) ranks 8,671 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,481 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 146 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Halls (Knox) and the insurance market
Halls (Knox)'s high rating (73rd 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 Halls (Knox)
Halls (Knox)'s 42.6% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,915 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Halls (Knox). For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Halls (Knox), see the exposure-zones guide.