WildfireRiskFinder

Martinez, GA

Martinez, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers

Elevated
60thpercentile nationally

Martinez's 14,320 buildings earn a 60th-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.)

Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Martinez at the 63rd national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.

Martinez's building exposure, zone by zone

14,320Total buildings
30.1%Direct exposure
16.3%Indirect exposure
53.6%Minimal exposure

USFS classifies 53.6% of Martinez's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 30.1% Direct and 16.3% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 14,320 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.

How Martinez compares

Martinez ranks lower within Georgia (18th percentile statewide) than its 60th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Martinez ranks 12,726 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,046 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 547 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.

Shopping for coverage in Martinez

At the 60th national percentile, Martinez rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.

Hardening a home in Martinez

Even with 53.6% of Martinez 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

Every one of the two percentiles behind Martinez's 12,726-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Martinez, see the exposure-zones guide.