McLemoresville, TN
McLemoresville wildfire risk explained
McLemoresville's 291 buildings earn a 39th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, McLemoresville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 40th percentile nationally.
McLemoresville's building exposure, zone by zone
291 buildings are counted in McLemoresville, and 86.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where McLemoresville ranks
There's little gap between McLemoresville's 39th national percentile and its 28th percentile inside Tennessee, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, McLemoresville ranks 19,209 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,896 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 360 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in McLemoresville
McLemoresville's moderate wildfire rating (39th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in McLemoresville (86.6%), 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 McLemoresville's 19,209-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond McLemoresville, see the exposure-zones guide.