Jonesboro, GA
Jonesboro, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Jonesboro's 1,684 buildings earn a 53rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Jonesboro's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 57th percentile nationally.
Jonesboro's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 68.6% of Jonesboro's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 31.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Jonesboro compares
Inside Georgia, Jonesboro sits at just the 9th percentile even though it scores 53rd 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, Jonesboro ranks 14,772 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,478 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 606 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Jonesboro
Jonesboro's elevated wildfire rating (53rd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 68.6% of Jonesboro outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,684 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Jonesboro. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Jonesboro, see the exposure-zones guide.