Cartersville, GA
Cartersville, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Cartersville's 9,207 buildings earn a 64th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Cartersville at the 67th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Cartersville's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Cartersville's buildings (51.6%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 9,207 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Cartersville against the rest of the country
Cartersville's 64th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 35th ranking inside Georgia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 29 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cartersville ranks 11,401 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,791 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 433 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cartersville
Cartersville's high rating (64th 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.
Hardening a home in Cartersville
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Cartersville (51.6% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 9,207 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Cartersville. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Cartersville, see the exposure-zones guide.