Ragland, AL
Ragland, AL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Ragland's 1,214 buildings earn a 82nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ragland at the 84th percentile, close to its 82nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Ragland: 92.3% of its 1,214 buildings, versus 7.7% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Ragland ranks
There's little gap between Ragland's 82nd national percentile and its 80th percentile inside Alabama, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ragland ranks 5,818 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,566 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 119 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ragland
Ragland's very high rating (82nd 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.
Hardening a home in Ragland
Ragland's 92.3% 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 Ragland's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ragland's 5,818-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Ragland's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.