New Hope, TN
New Hope, TN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores New Hope at the 80th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 773 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks New Hope at the 83rd national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where New Hope's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in New Hope: 98.1% of its 773 buildings, versus 1.8% Indirect and 0.1% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where New Hope ranks
There's little gap between New Hope's 80th national percentile and its 86th percentile inside Tennessee, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Hope ranks 6,442 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,894 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 73 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New Hope
New Hope's 80th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 98.1% of New Hope in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where New Hope's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 773 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for New Hope. The exposure-zones guide covers what New Hope's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.