Acworth, GA
Acworth wildfire risk explained
Acworth's 7,701 buildings earn a 66th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Acworth's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 69th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 29.7% of Acworth's 7,701 buildings carry Direct exposure and 13.4% carry Indirect; the remaining 56.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 7,701 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Acworth compares
Acworth's 66th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 46th ranking inside Georgia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 20 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Acworth ranks 10,799 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,213 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 357 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Acworth's 66th-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
Acworth's 56.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Acworth's 10,799-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Acworth, see the exposure-zones guide.