Moultrie, GA
How exposed is Moultrie to wildfire?
USFS scores Moultrie at the 64th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 6,231 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Moultrie at the 63rd percentile, close to its 64th-percentile risk score.
Where Moultrie's buildings actually sit
44.8% of Moultrie's 6,231 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 2,789 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 43.3% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 12% are Minimal. At 6,231 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Moultrie compares
Moultrie ranks lower within Georgia (35th percentile statewide) than its 64th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Moultrie ranks 11,431 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,785 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 436 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Moultrie and the insurance market
Moultrie's high rating (64th 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
With 44.8% of Moultrie 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
Moultrie's 64th-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 Moultrie, see the exposure-zones guide.