Sneedville, TN
How exposed is Sneedville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sneedville at the 84th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 830 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 Sneedville at the 87th percentile, close to its 84th-percentile risk score.
Sneedville's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Sneedville: 51.8% of its 830 buildings, versus 48.2% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Sneedville ranks
Sneedville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Tennessee (94th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (84th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sneedville ranks 4,992 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,349 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 31 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sneedville
Sneedville's 84th-percentile, very 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.
Hardening a home in Sneedville
Sneedville's 51.8% 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 Sneedville's 4,992-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sneedville, see the exposure-zones guide.