Kingsland, GA
Kingsland wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Kingsland at the 83rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 6,444 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kingsland at the 80th percentile, close to its 83rd-percentile risk score.
Where Kingsland's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 60.4% of Kingsland's 6,444 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 39.6% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 6,444 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Kingsland compares
Kingsland's risk sits at a similar level relative to Georgia (94th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (83rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kingsland ranks 5,357 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,691 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 39 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kingsland
Kingsland's very high rating (83rd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Kingsland's 60.4% 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.
Where Kingsland's figures come from
Kingsland's 83rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Kingsland's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.