Hazel Green, AL
Hazel Green wildfire risk explained
Hazel Green's 2,283 buildings earn a 16th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hazel Green at the 19th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Hazel Green's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Hazel Green's 2,283 counted buildings, 64.7% carry Direct exposure and only 20.5% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Hazel Green compares
Inside Alabama, Hazel Green sits at just the 0th percentile even though it scores 16th 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, Hazel Green ranks 26,368 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,739 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 592 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Hazel Green and the insurance market
Hazel Green's low rating (16th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Hazel Green (64.7%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Hazel Green's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hazel Green's 26,368-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Hazel Green's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.