Yorkville, TN
How exposed is Yorkville to wildfire?
Yorkville sits at the 11th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 233 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Yorkville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 10th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
54.1% of Yorkville's 233 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 126 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 45.9% are Minimal.
How Yorkville compares
There's little gap between Yorkville's 11th national percentile and its 2nd percentile inside Tennessee, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Yorkville ranks 28,125 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,715 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 493 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Yorkville
Yorkville's low rating (11th 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 Yorkville
With 54.1% of Yorkville 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
Yorkville's 11th-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 Yorkville, see the exposure-zones guide.