Byron, GA
How exposed is Byron to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Byron at the 60th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 2,739 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Byron at the 61st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Byron's building exposure, zone by zone
2,739 buildings are counted in Byron, and 55.8% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 14.9% rated Minimal.
How Byron compares
Inside Georgia, Byron sits at just the 20th percentile even though it scores 60th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Byron ranks 12,501 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,868 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 534 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Byron and the insurance market
Byron's high rating (60th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Byron's 55.8% 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.
Where Byron's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Byron's 12,501-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Byron's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.