Redland, AL
How exposed is Redland to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Redland at the 64th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 2,423 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Redland at the 66th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
2,423 buildings are counted in Redland, and 90.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Redland ranks
Inside Alabama, Redland sits at just the 33rd percentile even though it scores 64th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Redland ranks 11,491 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,454 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 398 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Redland's 64th-percentile, 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Redland's 90.1% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Redland's 11,491-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Redland, see the exposure-zones guide.