Brunswick, GA
Brunswick, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Brunswick sits at the 93rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 6,642 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Brunswick's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 86th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 23.2% of Brunswick's 6,642 buildings carry Direct exposure and 18% carry Indirect; the remaining 58.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 6,642 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Brunswick against the rest of the country
Brunswick scores 93rd nationally and 99th 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, Brunswick ranks 2,328 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,605 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 6 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
Brunswick's 93rd-percentile, very 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 58.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Brunswick gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Brunswick's figures come from
Brunswick's 93rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brunswick's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.