Priceville, AL
Priceville wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Priceville at the 43rd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,884 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Priceville at the 46th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Priceville's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Priceville's 1,884 counted buildings, 53.4% carry Direct exposure and only 0.1% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Priceville compares
Priceville's 43rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 4th ranking inside Alabama does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 38 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Priceville ranks 18,110 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,806 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 568 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Priceville and the insurance market
Priceville's elevated rating (43rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Priceville (53.4%), 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 Priceville's 18,110-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Priceville, see the exposure-zones guide.