Mulga, AL
Mulga, AL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Mulga's 546 buildings earn a 75th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mulga's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 78th percentile nationally.
Where Mulga's buildings actually sit
Most of Mulga's buildings (63.9%) 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.
How Mulga compares
Inside Alabama, Mulga sits at just the 57th percentile even though it scores 75th 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, Mulga ranks 8,026 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,618 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 256 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mulga
Mulga's 75th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Mulga
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Mulga (63.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mulga's 8,026-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Mulga, see the exposure-zones guide.