Selmont-West Selmont, AL
Selmont-West Selmont, AL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Selmont-West Selmont at the 50th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,289 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 Selmont-West Selmont at the 53rd percentile, close to its 50th-percentile risk score.
Selmont-West Selmont's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 57.6% of Selmont-West Selmont's 1,289 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 42.4% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Selmont-West Selmont compares
Selmont-West Selmont's 50th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 7th ranking inside Alabama does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 44 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Selmont-West Selmont ranks 15,683 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,131 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 553 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Selmont-West Selmont
Selmont-West Selmont's elevated wildfire rating (50th 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.
Hardening a home in Selmont-West Selmont
Selmont-West Selmont's 57.6% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Selmont-West Selmont's figures come from
Selmont-West Selmont's 50th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Selmont-West Selmont's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.