Kingsport, TN
How exposed is Kingsport to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kingsport at the 69th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 25,323 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kingsport at the 74th percentile, close to its 69th-percentile risk score.
Kingsport's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Kingsport's buildings (41.3% of 25,323) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 25,323 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Kingsport compares
Kingsport's risk sits at a similar level relative to Tennessee (64th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (69th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kingsport ranks 9,752 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 498 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 183 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kingsport
At the 69th percentile nationally, Kingsport carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Kingsport's 41.3% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Kingsport's 69th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kingsport, see the exposure-zones guide.