Hohenwald, TN
Hohenwald wildfire risk explained
Hohenwald's 2,439 buildings earn a 56th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hohenwald at the 59th percentile, close to its 56th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Hohenwald: 55.7% of its 2,439 buildings, versus 44.3% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Hohenwald against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Hohenwald's 56th national percentile and its 49th percentile inside Tennessee, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hohenwald ranks 14,041 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,423 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 256 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hohenwald
Hohenwald's elevated rating (56th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Hohenwald
Hohenwald's 55.7% 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.
More on how this number was built
Hohenwald's 56th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hohenwald, see the exposure-zones guide.