La Follette, TN
How exposed is La Follette to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, La Follette lands at the 85th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 3,678 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, La Follette's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 88th percentile nationally.
La Follette's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 73% of La Follette's 3,678 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 27% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How La Follette compares
La Follette scores 85th nationally and 95th within Tennessee — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, La Follette ranks 4,735 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,551 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 26 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in La Follette
At the 85th percentile nationally, La Follette carries the very 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 73% of La Follette'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind La Follette's 4,735-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond La Follette, see the exposure-zones guide.