Glennville, GA
Glennville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Glennville lands at the 67th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 2,279 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Glennville at the 68th percentile, close to its 67th-percentile risk score.
Glennville's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Glennville's buildings (50%) 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.
How Glennville compares
Glennville ranks lower within Georgia (51st percentile statewide) than its 67th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glennville ranks 10,528 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,748 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 324 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
Glennville's 67th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Glennville
Because 50% of Glennville's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,279 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Glennville. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Glennville, see the exposure-zones guide.