Mount Juliet, TN
How exposed is Mount Juliet to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Mount Juliet lands at the 21st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 13,901 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mount Juliet at the 23rd percentile, close to its 21st-percentile risk score.
Mount Juliet's building exposure, zone by zone
58% of Mount Juliet's 13,901 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 41.9% Direct and 0.2% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 13,901 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Mount Juliet against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Mount Juliet's 21st national percentile and its 7th percentile inside Tennessee, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Juliet ranks 24,882 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,084 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 468 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mount Juliet
At the 21st national percentile, Mount Juliet rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Mount Juliet
Mount Juliet's 58% 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.
Where Mount Juliet's figures come from
Mount Juliet's 21st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mount Juliet's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.