Milledgeville, GA
Milledgeville, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Milledgeville's 5,973 buildings earn a 70th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Milledgeville at the 71st national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Milledgeville's building exposure, zone by zone
48.6% of Milledgeville's 5,973 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 48.1% Direct and 3.4% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 5,973 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Milledgeville compares
Milledgeville'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, Milledgeville ranks 9,543 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,886 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 244 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
Milledgeville'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 Milledgeville
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Milledgeville (48.6% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Milledgeville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 5,973 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Milledgeville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Milledgeville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.