Tidmore Bend, AL
Tidmore Bend wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Tidmore Bend at the 79th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 923 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 Tidmore Bend at the 83rd percentile, close to its 79th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Tidmore Bend: 95.3% of its 923 buildings, versus 4.1% Indirect and 0.5% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Tidmore Bend compares
There's little gap between Tidmore Bend's 79th national percentile and its 73rd percentile inside Alabama, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tidmore Bend ranks 6,543 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,522 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 163 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 79th percentile nationally, Tidmore Bend carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Tidmore Bend
With 95.3% of Tidmore Bend in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tidmore Bend's 6,543-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Tidmore Bend, see the exposure-zones guide.