Duluth, GA
How exposed is Duluth to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Duluth lands at the 45th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 7,693 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Duluth at the 49th 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
37.4% of Duluth's 7,693 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 28% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 7,693 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Duluth compares
Duluth's 45th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 1st ranking inside Georgia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 45 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Duluth ranks 17,198 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,217 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 665 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Duluth and the insurance market
At the 45th national percentile, Duluth rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Duluth
Even with 37.4% of Duluth 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 Duluth's 17,198-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Duluth, see the exposure-zones guide.