Strawberry Plains, TN
How exposed is Strawberry Plains to wildfire?
USFS scores Strawberry Plains at the 73rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,439 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Strawberry Plains's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 78th percentile nationally.
Where Strawberry Plains's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Strawberry Plains: 89.8% of its 1,439 buildings, versus 10.2% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Strawberry Plains ranks
Strawberry Plains scores 73rd nationally and 72nd within Tennessee — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Strawberry Plains ranks 8,422 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,436 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 140 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Strawberry Plains's 73rd-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Strawberry Plains's 89.8% 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
Strawberry Plains's 73rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Strawberry Plains, see the exposure-zones guide.