Petrey, AL
Petrey, AL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Petrey's 78 buildings earn a 53rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Petrey's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 56th percentile nationally.
Petrey's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Petrey: 100% of its 78 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Petrey compares
Petrey's 53rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 9th ranking inside Alabama does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 44 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Petrey ranks 14,707 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,951 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 539 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
At the 53rd national percentile, Petrey rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Petrey (100%), 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 Petrey's 14,707-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Petrey, see the exposure-zones guide.