Barnesville, GA
Barnesville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Barnesville lands at the 72nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 2,569 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Barnesville at the 75th percentile, close to its 72nd-percentile risk score.
Where Barnesville's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Barnesville: 51.9% of its 2,569 buildings, versus 48.1% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Barnesville against the rest of the country
Barnesville scores 72nd nationally and 73rd within Georgia — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Barnesville ranks 8,782 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,163 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 184 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Barnesville and the insurance market
Barnesville's high rating (72nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Barnesville's 51.9% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Barnesville's 8,782-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Barnesville, see the exposure-zones guide.