McIntyre, GA
How exposed is McIntyre to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts McIntyre at the 61st national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 554 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks McIntyre at the 62nd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of McIntyre's 554 counted buildings, 62.6% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
McIntyre against the rest of the country
McIntyre's 61st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 25th ranking inside Georgia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 36 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, McIntyre ranks 12,159 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,516 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 501 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
McIntyre's 61st-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 62.6% of McIntyre 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
McIntyre's 61st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond McIntyre, see the exposure-zones guide.