Chamblee, GA
Chamblee, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Chamblee at the 47th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 6,225 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Chamblee at the 50th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 38.1% of Chamblee's 6,225 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 61.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 6,225 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Chamblee against the rest of the country
Chamblee'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, Chamblee ranks 16,726 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,789 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 651 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
Chamblee'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.
Hardening a home in Chamblee
With 61.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Chamblee gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,225 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Chamblee. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Chamblee, see the exposure-zones guide.