Guyton, GA
How exposed is Guyton to wildfire?
Guyton's 972 buildings earn a 67th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Guyton at the 67th national percentile — 1 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
USFS classifies 75.9% of Guyton's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 24.1% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 738 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Guyton compares
Inside Georgia, Guyton sits at just the 51st percentile even though it scores 67th 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, Guyton ranks 10,552 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,129 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 329 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
Guyton'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 Guyton
With 75.9% of Guyton 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 972 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Guyton. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Guyton, see the exposure-zones guide.