Wilsonville, AL
Wilsonville, AL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wilsonville at the 79th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,238 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wilsonville at the 83rd percentile, close to its 79th-percentile risk score.
Where Wilsonville's buildings actually sit
1,238 buildings are counted in Wilsonville, and 92.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 1.5% rated Minimal.
Wilsonville against the rest of the country
Wilsonville scores 79th nationally and 72nd within Alabama — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wilsonville ranks 6,607 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,418 by building count (1 is largest). Within Alabama alone, it ranks 168 of 592 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Alabama on its state page.
Wilsonville and the insurance market
Wilsonville's 79th-percentile, 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Wilsonville (92.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Wilsonville's figures come from
Wilsonville's 79th-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 Wilsonville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.