Alamo, GA
Alamo wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Alamo at the 67th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 563 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 Alamo at the 68th percentile, close to its 67th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
60.2% of Alamo's 563 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 39.8% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Alamo against the rest of the country
Alamo's risk sits at a similar level relative to Georgia (53rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (67th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Alamo ranks 10,392 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,352 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 312 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 67th percentile nationally, Alamo 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 60.2% of Alamo'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Alamo's 10,392-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Alamo, see the exposure-zones guide.