Oak Grove, AL
How exposed is Oak Grove to wildfire?
USFS scores Oak Grove at the 79th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 402 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Oak Grove at the 82nd percentile, close to its 79th-percentile risk score.
Oak Grove's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Oak Grove: 79.9% of its 402 buildings, versus 20.2% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Oak Grove ranks
There's little gap between Oak Grove's 79th national percentile and its 71st percentile inside Alabama, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Oak Grove ranks 6,636 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,163 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 169 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Oak Grove
Oak Grove's 79th-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.
Hardening a home in Oak Grove
With 79.9% of Oak Grove 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 Oak Grove's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 402 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Oak Grove. The exposure-zones guide covers what Oak Grove's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.