New Tazewell, TN
How exposed is New Tazewell to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts New Tazewell at the 85th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,709 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, New Tazewell's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 89th percentile nationally.
New Tazewell's building exposure, zone by zone
54.1% of New Tazewell's 1,709 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 45.9% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where New Tazewell ranks
New Tazewell's risk sits at a similar level relative to Tennessee (96th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (85th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Tazewell ranks 4,677 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,388 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 22 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
New Tazewell and the insurance market
New Tazewell's 85th-percentile, very 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
Because 54.1% of New Tazewell's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
New Tazewell's 85th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond New Tazewell, see the exposure-zones guide.