Kimberly, AL
Kimberly, AL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Kimberly sits at the 76th 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 1,591 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kimberly at the 79th percentile, close to its 76th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Kimberly's 1,591 counted buildings, 83.9% 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.
Kimberly against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Kimberly's 76th national percentile and its 62nd percentile inside Alabama, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kimberly ranks 7,645 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,793 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 227 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Kimberly's high rating (76th 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
Kimberly's 83.9% 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
Kimberly's 76th-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 Kimberly, see the exposure-zones guide.