Lakeland, GA
Lakeland wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lakeland at the 70th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,336 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lakeland at the 70th percentile, close to its 70th-percentile risk score.
Lakeland's building exposure, zone by zone
62.7% of Lakeland's 1,336 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 37.3% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Lakeland ranks
Lakeland's risk sits at a similar level relative to Georgia (64th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (70th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lakeland ranks 9,541 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,900 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 242 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lakeland
Lakeland's high rating (70th 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
Because 62.7% of Lakeland's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lakeland's 9,541-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lakeland, see the exposure-zones guide.