Bethlehem, GA
How exposed is Bethlehem to wildfire?
Bethlehem's 403 buildings earn a 56th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bethlehem at the 60th percentile, close to its 56th-percentile risk score.
Bethlehem's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 88.1% of Bethlehem's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 11.9% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 355 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Bethlehem compares
Bethlehem's 56th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 14th ranking inside Georgia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 43 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bethlehem ranks 13,765 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,148 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 579 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bethlehem
Bethlehem's elevated wildfire rating (56th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Bethlehem's 88.1% 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 403 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bethlehem. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bethlehem, see the exposure-zones guide.