New Market, AL
How exposed is New Market to wildfire?
USFS scores New Market at the 46th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,160 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 Market at the 49th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in New Market: 77.6% of its 1,160 buildings, versus 22.4% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where New Market ranks
Inside Alabama, New Market sits at just the 5th percentile even though it scores 46th 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, New Market ranks 17,039 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,886 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 564 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
New Market and the insurance market
At the 46th national percentile, New Market rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in New Market (77.6%), 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind New Market's 17,039-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond New Market, see the exposure-zones guide.