Snellville, GA
How exposed is Snellville to wildfire?
USFS scores Snellville at the 46th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 7,805 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Snellville at the 49th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Snellville's buildings actually sit
Only 40.7% of Snellville's 7,805 buildings carry Direct exposure and 8.4% carry Indirect; the remaining 50.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 7,805 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Snellville compares
Snellville ranks lower within Georgia (1st percentile statewide) than its 46th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Snellville ranks 17,107 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,179 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 663 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Snellville
Snellville's elevated rating (46th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Snellville
Snellville's 50.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Snellville's 17,107-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Snellville, see the exposure-zones guide.