Maplesville, AL
Maplesville, AL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Maplesville lands at the 67th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 504 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Maplesville at the 69th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
69.3% of Maplesville's 504 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 349 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 30.8% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Maplesville ranks
Inside Alabama, Maplesville sits at just the 40th percentile even though it scores 67th 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, Maplesville ranks 10,388 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,262 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 358 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Maplesville and the insurance market
At the 67th percentile nationally, Maplesville 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.
Hardening a home in Maplesville
With 69.3% of Maplesville in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Maplesville's 10,388-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Maplesville, see the exposure-zones guide.