Hollywood, AL
Hollywood wildfire risk explained
Hollywood's 741 buildings earn a 72nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hollywood's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 77th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 85.3% of Hollywood's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 14.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 632 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Hollywood against the rest of the country
Inside Alabama, Hollywood sits at just the 52nd percentile even though it scores 72nd 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, Hollywood ranks 8,749 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,208 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 285 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hollywood
Hollywood's 72nd-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Hollywood's 85.3% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 741 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Hollywood. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hollywood, see the exposure-zones guide.