Maryville, TN
How exposed is Maryville to wildfire?
Maryville sits at the 68th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 12,544 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Maryville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 74th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Maryville's buildings (46.9%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 12,544 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Maryville ranks
There's little gap between Maryville's 68th national percentile and its 63rd percentile inside Tennessee, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Maryville ranks 9,970 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,227 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 189 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Maryville
Maryville's high rating (68th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Maryville
Maryville's 46.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 12,544 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Maryville. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Maryville, see the exposure-zones guide.