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Mountain Park (Gwinnett), GA

Mountain Park (Gwinnett), GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers

Elevated
46thpercentile nationally

Mountain Park (Gwinnett) sits at the 46th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 4,650 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)

USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mountain Park (Gwinnett) at the 49th percentile, close to its 46th-percentile risk score.

Mountain Park (Gwinnett)'s building exposure, zone by zone

4,650Total buildings
58.5%Direct exposure
9.3%Indirect exposure
32.3%Minimal exposure

58.5% of Mountain Park (Gwinnett)'s 4,650 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 2,718 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 9.3% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 32.3% are Minimal.

How Mountain Park (Gwinnett) compares

Inside Georgia, Mountain Park (Gwinnett) sits at just the 2nd percentile even though it scores 46th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mountain Park (Gwinnett) ranks 17,009 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,657 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 658 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.

Shopping for coverage in Mountain Park (Gwinnett)

Mountain Park (Gwinnett)'s elevated wildfire rating (46th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.

Hardening a home in Mountain Park (Gwinnett)

With 58.5% of Mountain Park (Gwinnett) 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.

Where Mountain Park (Gwinnett)'s figures come from

Mountain Park (Gwinnett)'s 46th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mountain Park (Gwinnett)'s dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.