Glenwood, GA
How exposed is Glenwood to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Glenwood lands at the 67th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 381 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 Glenwood at the 67th percentile, close to its 67th-percentile risk score.
Where Glenwood's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Glenwood: 61.2% of its 381 buildings, versus 38.9% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Glenwood ranks
Glenwood's 67th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 51st ranking inside Georgia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 16 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glenwood ranks 10,551 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,615 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 328 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Glenwood and the insurance market
Glenwood's high rating (67th 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.
Hardening a home in Glenwood
Glenwood's 61.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Glenwood's 67th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Glenwood, see the exposure-zones guide.