Hinesville, GA
How exposed is Hinesville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hinesville lands at the 62nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 11,735 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 Hinesville at the 63rd percentile, close to its 62nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 53.9% of Hinesville's 11,735 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 43.5% Direct and 2.7% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 11,735 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Hinesville ranks
Hinesville's 62nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 27th ranking inside Georgia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 35 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hinesville ranks 12,032 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,334 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 491 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
Hinesville's high rating (62nd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Hinesville's 53.9% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hinesville's 12,032-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hinesville, see the exposure-zones guide.