Nahunta, GA
Nahunta, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Nahunta at the 75th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 626 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Nahunta at the 76th percentile, close to its 75th-percentile risk score.
Where Nahunta's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 64.9% of Nahunta's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 35.1% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 406 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Nahunta ranks
There's little gap between Nahunta's 75th national percentile and its 82nd percentile inside Georgia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nahunta ranks 7,785 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,488 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 119 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Nahunta
Nahunta's 75th-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 Nahunta
Because Direct exposure dominates in Nahunta (64.9%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Nahunta's 7,785-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Nahunta, see the exposure-zones guide.