Brookhaven, GA
How exposed is Brookhaven to wildfire?
Brookhaven sits at the 48th 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 12,642 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Brookhaven's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 51st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 50% of Brookhaven's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 50% Minimal share — a profile where 6,321 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most. At 12,642 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Brookhaven compares
Brookhaven ranks lower within Georgia (4th percentile statewide) than its 48th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brookhaven ranks 16,414 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,208 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 642 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
Brookhaven's elevated wildfire rating (48th 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.
Hardening a home in Brookhaven
Brookhaven's 50% 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 Brookhaven's 16,414-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Brookhaven, see the exposure-zones guide.