Norene, TN
Norene wildfire risk explained
Norene sits at the 29th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 149 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Norene at the 31st percentile, close to its 29th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Norene: 100% of its 149 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Norene compares
Norene's risk sits at a similar level relative to Tennessee (15th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (29th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Norene ranks 22,518 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,930 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 426 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Norene
Norene's moderate wildfire rating (29th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 100% of Norene 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Norene's 22,518-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Norene, see the exposure-zones guide.