Tuskegee, AL
How exposed is Tuskegee to wildfire?
Tuskegee's 4,336 buildings earn a 72nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tuskegee at the 74th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Tuskegee's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Tuskegee: 61.3% of its 4,336 buildings, versus 38.5% Indirect and 0.2% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Tuskegee ranks
Tuskegee's 72nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 52nd ranking inside Alabama does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 20 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tuskegee ranks 8,751 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,950 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 287 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tuskegee
At the 72nd percentile nationally, Tuskegee 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 Tuskegee
Tuskegee's 61.3% 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 Tuskegee's 8,751-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Tuskegee, see the exposure-zones guide.