Fayetteville, GA
How exposed is Fayetteville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Fayetteville at the 61st national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 6,785 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fayetteville at the 65th 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
Most of Fayetteville's buildings (61.8%) 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 6,785 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Fayetteville compares
Fayetteville's 61st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 25th ranking inside Georgia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 36 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fayetteville ranks 12,157 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,549 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 499 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fayetteville
Fayetteville's high rating (61st 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Fayetteville (61.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Fayetteville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,785 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Fayetteville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fayetteville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.