Jefferson, GA
Jefferson, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Jefferson lands at the 57th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 5,132 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Jefferson at the 61st national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Jefferson's buildings actually sit
5,132 buildings are counted in Jefferson, and 66.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal. At 5,132 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Jefferson compares
Inside Georgia, Jefferson sits at just the 14th percentile even though it scores 57th 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, Jefferson ranks 13,483 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,363 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 573 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
Jefferson's elevated rating (57th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Jefferson
With 66.1% of Jefferson 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Jefferson's 13,483-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Jefferson, see the exposure-zones guide.