Valley, AL
Valley, AL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Valley's 5,071 buildings earn a 76th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Valley's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 79th percentile nationally.
Where Valley's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Valley: 53.9% of its 5,071 buildings, versus 45.8% Indirect and 0.3% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap. At 5,071 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Valley ranks
There's little gap between Valley's 76th national percentile and its 63rd percentile inside Alabama, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Valley ranks 7,520 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,397 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 219 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Valley and the insurance market
Valley's high rating (76th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Valley
With 53.9% of Valley 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
Valley's 76th-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 Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.