Mount Airy, GA
Mount Airy, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Mount Airy at the 73rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 610 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 Mount Airy at the 76th percentile, close to its 73rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Mount Airy's 610 counted buildings, 71.2% 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.
Where Mount Airy ranks
Mount Airy's risk sits at a similar level relative to Georgia (75th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (73rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Airy ranks 8,660 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,690 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 172 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Mount Airy and the insurance market
Mount Airy's 73rd-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
Mount Airy's 71.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mount Airy's 8,660-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Mount Airy, see the exposure-zones guide.