Jacksonville, GA
Jacksonville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Jacksonville at the 70th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 120 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Jacksonville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 70th percentile nationally.
Where Jacksonville's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 97.5% of Jacksonville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 2.5% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 117 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Jacksonville against the rest of the country
Jacksonville scores 70th nationally and 64th 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, Jacksonville ranks 9,515 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,142 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 240 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Jacksonville
Jacksonville's 70th-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 Jacksonville
Jacksonville's 97.5% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 120 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Jacksonville. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Jacksonville, see the exposure-zones guide.