Mitchellville, TN
Mitchellville wildfire risk explained
Mitchellville sits at the 12th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 140 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mitchellville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 12th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Mitchellville's 140 counted buildings, 80% carry Direct exposure and only 20% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Mitchellville compares
There's little gap between Mitchellville's 12th national percentile and its 2nd percentile inside Tennessee, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mitchellville ranks 27,875 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,306 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 490 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Mitchellville and the insurance market
Mitchellville's low rating (12th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Mitchellville (80%), 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
Mitchellville's 12th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Mitchellville, see the exposure-zones guide.