Moundville, AL
Moundville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Moundville at the 60th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,557 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Moundville at the 62nd percentile, close to its 60th-percentile risk score.
Moundville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 63.8% of Moundville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 36.2% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 994 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Moundville against the rest of the country
Inside Alabama, Moundville sits at just the 25th percentile even though it scores 60th 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, Moundville ranks 12,752 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,930 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 445 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Moundville
Moundville's elevated rating (60th 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
Moundville's 63.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Moundville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,557 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Moundville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Moundville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.