Tiptonville, TN
Tiptonville, TN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Tiptonville lands at the 15th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,164 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 Tiptonville at the 14th percentile, close to its 15th-percentile risk score.
Where Tiptonville's buildings actually sit
Only 32% of Tiptonville's 1,164 buildings carry Direct exposure and 13.4% carry Indirect; the remaining 54.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Tiptonville ranks
There's little gap between Tiptonville's 15th national percentile and its 3rd percentile inside Tennessee, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tiptonville ranks 26,928 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,875 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 486 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tiptonville
At the 15th national percentile, Tiptonville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 54.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Tiptonville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Tiptonville's figures come from
Tiptonville's 15th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Tiptonville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.