Macedonia, AL
Macedonia, AL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Macedonia at the 59th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 204 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 Macedonia at the 61st percentile, close to its 59th-percentile risk score.
Where Macedonia's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Macedonia: 100% of its 204 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Macedonia compares
Inside Alabama, Macedonia sits at just the 24th percentile even though it scores 59th 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, Macedonia ranks 12,785 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,682 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 448 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Macedonia
Macedonia's elevated rating (59th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Macedonia (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Macedonia's 12,785-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Macedonia, see the exposure-zones guide.