Blairsville, GA
Blairsville wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Blairsville at the 73rd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 467 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Blairsville at the 76th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
72.8% of Blairsville's 467 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 27.2% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Blairsville compares
Blairsville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Georgia (77th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (73rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blairsville ranks 8,441 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,935 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 156 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Blairsville and the insurance market
Blairsville's 73rd-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 72.8% of Blairsville's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Blairsville's 8,441-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Blairsville, see the exposure-zones guide.