Walland, TN
How exposed is Walland to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Walland lands at the 91st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 217 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Walland at the 92nd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Walland's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Walland's 217 counted buildings, 99.1% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Walland against the rest of the country
Walland's risk sits at a similar level relative to Tennessee (99th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (91st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Walland ranks 2,873 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,253 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 5 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Walland
Walland's 91st-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Walland
Because Direct exposure dominates in Walland (99.1%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 217 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Walland. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Walland, see the exposure-zones guide.