Funston, GA
Funston wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Funston at the 56th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 271 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Funston at the 55th percentile, close to its 56th-percentile risk score.
Funston's building exposure, zone by zone
76% of Funston's 271 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 206 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 24% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Funston against the rest of the country
Inside Georgia, Funston sits at just the 12th percentile even though it scores 56th 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, Funston ranks 13,954 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,460 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 587 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Funston and the insurance market
Funston's elevated wildfire rating (56th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
With 76% of Funston in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Funston's 13,954-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Funston, see the exposure-zones guide.