Pavo, GA
Pavo wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pavo at the 63rd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 480 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pavo at the 62nd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 71.5% of Pavo's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 28.5% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 343 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Pavo against the rest of the country
Pavo's 63rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 34th ranking inside Georgia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 30 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pavo ranks 11,529 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,700 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 447 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pavo
Pavo's high rating (63rd 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 71.5% of Pavo 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pavo's 11,529-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pavo, see the exposure-zones guide.