Hahira, GA
Hahira, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hahira at the 69th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,431 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 Hahira at the 68th percentile, close to its 69th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
51.7% of Hahira's 1,431 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 48.3% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Hahira against the rest of the country
Hahira scores 69th nationally and 60th within Georgia — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hahira ranks 9,891 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,470 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 267 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Hahira and the insurance market
Hahira's 69th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Hahira's 51.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Hahira's 69th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hahira, see the exposure-zones guide.