Milan, GA
Milan, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Milan lands at the 70th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 600 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Milan at the 69th percentile, close to its 70th-percentile risk score.
Milan's building exposure, zone by zone
600 buildings are counted in Milan, and 72% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Milan compares
There's little gap between Milan's 70th national percentile and its 64th percentile inside Georgia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Milan ranks 9,542 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,832 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 243 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
Milan's 70th-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.
Hardening a home in Milan
With 72% of Milan 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 600 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Milan. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Milan, see the exposure-zones guide.