Avondale Estates, GA
How exposed is Avondale Estates to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Avondale Estates at the 46th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,428 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Avondale Estates's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 49th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,428 buildings are counted in Avondale Estates, and 63.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 36.9% rated Minimal.
How Avondale Estates compares
Avondale Estates's 46th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 2nd ranking inside Georgia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 45 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Avondale Estates ranks 16,920 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,483 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 656 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Avondale Estates
At the 46th national percentile, Avondale Estates rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Avondale Estates
Avondale Estates's 63.1% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,428 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Avondale Estates. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Avondale Estates, see the exposure-zones guide.