Candler-McAfee, GA
Candler-McAfee, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Candler-McAfee at the 47th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 8,272 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Candler-McAfee at the 50th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Candler-McAfee's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Candler-McAfee's 8,272 counted buildings, 55.6% carry Direct exposure and only 44.4% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first. At 8,272 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Candler-McAfee compares
Candler-McAfee's 47th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 3rd ranking inside Georgia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 44 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Candler-McAfee ranks 16,601 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,021 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 647 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
Candler-McAfee's elevated rating (47th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 55.6% of Candler-McAfee 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.
More on how this number was built
Candler-McAfee's 47th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Candler-McAfee, see the exposure-zones guide.