Huguley, AL
Huguley wildfire risk explained
Huguley sits at the 75th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,730 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Huguley at the 78th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Huguley's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Huguley's 1,730 counted buildings, 83% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Huguley ranks
Inside Alabama, Huguley sits at just the 59th percentile even though it scores 75th 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, Huguley ranks 7,898 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,301 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 245 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Huguley
Huguley's 75th-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.
Hardening a home in Huguley
Huguley's 83% 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 1,730 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Huguley. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Huguley, see the exposure-zones guide.