Mount Zion, GA
Mount Zion wildfire risk explained
Mount Zion sits at the 89th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 793 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mount Zion at the 92nd national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Mount Zion's building exposure, zone by zone
793 buildings are counted in Mount Zion, and 99.4% 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 Mount Zion compares
There's little gap between Mount Zion's 89th national percentile and its 98th percentile inside Georgia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Zion ranks 3,497 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,699 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 13 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mount Zion
Mount Zion's 89th-percentile, very 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 99.4% of Mount Zion 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 793 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mount Zion. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Mount Zion, see the exposure-zones guide.