Pulaski, TN
Pulaski wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pulaski at the 31st national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 4,023 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pulaski at the 34th percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
4,023 buildings are counted in Pulaski, and 66.6% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 32.2% in Direct exposure or the 1.3% rated Minimal.
Where Pulaski ranks
Pulaski scores 31st nationally and 20th 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, Pulaski ranks 21,825 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,229 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 405 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pulaski
At the 31st national percentile, Pulaski rates moderate 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
Because 66.6% of Pulaski's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pulaski's 21,825-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pulaski, see the exposure-zones guide.