Remlap, AL
How exposed is Remlap to wildfire?
USFS scores Remlap at the 77th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,394 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Remlap at the 80th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Remlap's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Remlap's 1,394 counted buildings, 97.7% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Remlap ranks
Remlap's risk sits at a similar level relative to Alabama (68th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (77th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Remlap ranks 7,268 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,652 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 193 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Remlap
Remlap's 77th-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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Remlap (97.7%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Remlap's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,394 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Remlap. The exposure-zones guide covers what Remlap's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.