Rogersville, AL
Rogersville, AL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Rogersville's 1,112 buildings earn a 49th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rogersville at the 51st percentile, close to its 49th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,112 buildings are counted in Rogersville, and 66.2% 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 Rogersville ranks
Rogersville's 49th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 6th ranking inside Alabama does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 43 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rogersville ranks 16,187 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,203 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 556 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Rogersville and the insurance market
Rogersville's elevated wildfire rating (49th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
With 66.2% of Rogersville in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rogersville's 16,187-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Rogersville, see the exposure-zones guide.