Pittman Center, TN
Pittman Center, TN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Pittman Center at the 81st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 498 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 Pittman Center at the 83rd percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 99.8% of Pittman Center's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0.2% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 497 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Pittman Center ranks
Pittman Center scores 81st nationally and 88th within Tennessee — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pittman Center ranks 5,970 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,396 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 60 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pittman Center
Pittman Center's 81st-percentile, very 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 Pittman Center
Pittman Center's 99.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Pittman Center's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 498 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pittman Center. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pittman Center's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.