Lynn, AL
How exposed is Lynn to wildfire?
USFS scores Lynn at the 72nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 572 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lynn at the 76th percentile, close to its 72nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Lynn's 572 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 Lynn ranks
Inside Alabama, Lynn sits at just the 52nd percentile even though it scores 72nd 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, Lynn ranks 8,750 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,206 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 286 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
Lynn's 72nd-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 Lynn
Because Direct exposure dominates in Lynn (83%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Lynn's figures come from
Lynn's 72nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lynn's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.