Woodland Mills, TN
How exposed is Woodland Mills to wildfire?
USFS scores Woodland Mills at the 5th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 254 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Woodland Mills at the 5th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
Where Woodland Mills's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Woodland Mills: 51.6% of its 254 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 48.4% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Woodland Mills ranks
Woodland Mills's risk sits at a similar level relative to Tennessee (0th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (5th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Woodland Mills ranks 29,992 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,031 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 500 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Woodland Mills
Woodland Mills's low rating (5th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Woodland Mills
Woodland Mills's 51.6% 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.
Where Woodland Mills's figures come from
Woodland Mills's 5th-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 Woodland Mills's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.