Allentown, GA
How exposed is Allentown to wildfire?
USFS scores Allentown at the 61st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 223 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 Allentown at the 62nd percentile, close to its 61st-percentile risk score.
Allentown's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Allentown's 223 counted buildings, 86.1% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Allentown compares
Inside Georgia, Allentown sits at just the 21st percentile even though it scores 61st 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, Allentown ranks 12,411 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,006 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 527 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
Allentown's 61st-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
With 86.1% of Allentown 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 223 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Allentown. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Allentown, see the exposure-zones guide.