Smyrna, TN
Smyrna, TN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Smyrna lands at the 21st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 16,985 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Smyrna at the 22nd percentile, close to its 21st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Smyrna's buildings (40.3% of 16,985) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 16,985 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Smyrna compares
There's little gap between Smyrna's 21st national percentile and its 6th percentile inside Tennessee, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Smyrna ranks 24,976 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 852 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 470 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Smyrna
At the 21st national percentile, Smyrna rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Smyrna
With 40.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Smyrna gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 16,985 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Smyrna. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Smyrna, see the exposure-zones guide.