Buena Vista, GA
Buena Vista wildfire risk explained
Buena Vista's 835 buildings earn a 69th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm 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 Buena Vista at the 68th percentile, close to its 69th-percentile risk score.
Where Buena Vista's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 74.7% of Buena Vista's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 25.3% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 624 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Buena Vista against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Buena Vista's 69th national percentile and its 61st percentile inside Georgia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Buena Vista ranks 9,858 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,299 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 264 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Buena Vista and the insurance market
Buena Vista's 69th-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
With 74.7% of Buena Vista in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Buena Vista's figures come from
Buena Vista's 69th-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 Buena Vista's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.