Pelham, GA
Pelham, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pelham at the 63rd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,820 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 Pelham at the 62nd percentile, close to its 63rd-percentile risk score.
Pelham's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Pelham: 51.8% of its 1,820 buildings, versus 47.8% Indirect and 0.4% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Pelham against the rest of the country
Inside Georgia, Pelham sits at just the 30th percentile even though it scores 63rd 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, Pelham ranks 11,721 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,003 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 466 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pelham
Pelham'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 51.8% of Pelham 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 Pelham's 11,721-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pelham, see the exposure-zones guide.