Prattville, AL
Prattville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Prattville at the 58th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 15,109 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 Prattville at the 60th percentile, close to its 58th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 43.2% of Prattville's 15,109 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 40.3% Direct and 16.5% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 15,109 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Prattville ranks
Prattville ranks lower within Alabama (20th percentile statewide) than its 58th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Prattville ranks 13,320 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 981 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 477 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Prattville and the insurance market
At the 58th national percentile, Prattville rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Prattville's 43.2% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 15,109 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Prattville. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Prattville, see the exposure-zones guide.