Thompson's Station, TN
Thompson's Station, TN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Thompson's Station's 3,069 buildings earn a 30th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Thompson's Station at the 32nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Thompson's Station's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Thompson's Station's 3,069 counted buildings, 63% carry Direct exposure and only 5.3% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Thompson's Station compares
Thompson's Station scores 30th nationally and 18th 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, Thompson's Station ranks 22,013 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,329 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 410 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Thompson's Station and the insurance market
At the 30th national percentile, Thompson's Station 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 Thompson's Station
Thompson's Station's 63% 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 Thompson's Station's 22,013-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Thompson's Station, see the exposure-zones guide.