Donalsonville, GA
Donalsonville wildfire risk explained
Donalsonville sits at the 49th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,743 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Donalsonville at the 50th national percentile — 1 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
USFS classifies 58.6% of Donalsonville's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 41.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Donalsonville ranks
Inside Georgia, Donalsonville sits at just the 5th percentile even though it scores 49th 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, Donalsonville ranks 15,937 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,253 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 636 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Donalsonville
At the 49th national percentile, Donalsonville rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 58.6% of Donalsonville outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Donalsonville's 15,937-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Donalsonville, see the exposure-zones guide.