Parrish, AL
Parrish wildfire risk explained
Parrish's 657 buildings earn a 76th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Parrish at the 79th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Parrish's buildings actually sit
657 buildings are counted in Parrish, and 69.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Parrish ranks
Parrish scores 76th nationally and 61st within Alabama — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Parrish ranks 7,708 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,096 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 230 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Parrish and the insurance market
Parrish's 76th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 69.1% of Parrish 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 Parrish's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Parrish's 7,708-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Parrish's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.