Hueytown, AL
How exposed is Hueytown to wildfire?
USFS scores Hueytown at the 71st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 8,331 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hueytown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 74th percentile nationally.
Where Hueytown's buildings actually sit
Most of Hueytown's buildings (44.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 8,331 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Hueytown against the rest of the country
Hueytown ranks lower within Alabama (48th percentile statewide) than its 71st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hueytown ranks 9,285 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,997 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 311 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Hueytown and the insurance market
Hueytown's high rating (71st 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 44.5% of Hueytown's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 8,331 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Hueytown. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hueytown, see the exposure-zones guide.