Alpharetta, GA
How exposed is Alpharetta to wildfire?
Alpharetta sits at the 53rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 17,664 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Alpharetta at the 56th percentile, close to its 53rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Alpharetta's buildings (58% of 17,664) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 17,664 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Alpharetta compares
Alpharetta ranks lower within Georgia (9th percentile statewide) than its 53rd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Alpharetta ranks 14,801 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 811 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 607 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
Alpharetta's elevated rating (53rd 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 Alpharetta
Alpharetta's 58% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 17,664 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Alpharetta. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Alpharetta, see the exposure-zones guide.