Adel, GA
How exposed is Adel to wildfire?
Adel's 3,175 buildings earn a 64th-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, Adel's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 63rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
3,175 buildings are counted in Adel, and 58.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 41.2% in Direct exposure or the 0.6% rated Minimal.
How Adel compares
Inside Georgia, Adel sits at just the 36th percentile even though it scores 64th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Adel ranks 11,367 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,196 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 424 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
At the 64th percentile nationally, Adel carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 58.2% of Adel's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Adel's 64th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Adel, see the exposure-zones guide.