Wadley, AL
How exposed is Wadley to wildfire?
USFS scores Wadley at the 84th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 362 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wadley at the 87th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 69.9% of Wadley's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 30.1% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 253 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Wadley compares
There's little gap between Wadley's 84th national percentile and its 86th percentile inside Alabama, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wadley ranks 4,998 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,010 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 83 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wadley
At the 84th percentile nationally, Wadley carries the very 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 Wadley
Wadley's 69.9% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 362 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Wadley. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Wadley, see the exposure-zones guide.