Pike Road, AL
How exposed is Pike Road to wildfire?
Pike Road's 4,048 buildings earn a 65th-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 Pike Road at the 69th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
61.1% of Pike Road's 4,048 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 2,472 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 38.7% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0.2% are Minimal.
How Pike Road compares
Pike Road's 65th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 36th ranking inside Alabama does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 29 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pike Road ranks 10,955 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,191 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 377 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pike Road
Pike Road's high rating (65th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Pike Road (61.1%), 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 Pike Road's 10,955-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pike Road, see the exposure-zones guide.