Newville, AL
Newville, AL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Newville at the 56th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 377 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Newville at the 57th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Newville's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Newville's 377 counted buildings, 69.5% carry Direct exposure and only 0.8% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Newville ranks
Newville ranks lower within Alabama (14th percentile statewide) than its 56th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Newville ranks 13,792 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,710 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 507 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Newville's elevated wildfire rating (56th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Newville
Because Direct exposure dominates in Newville (69.5%), 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 Newville's 13,792-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Newville, see the exposure-zones guide.