Statham, GA
Statham wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Statham at the 57th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,150 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 Statham at the 61st percentile, close to its 57th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 64.4% of Statham's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 35.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 740 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Statham against the rest of the country
Statham's 57th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 14th ranking inside Georgia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 43 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Statham ranks 13,513 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,958 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 575 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Statham and the insurance market
Statham's elevated wildfire rating (57th 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 Statham
With 64.4% of Statham 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
Statham's 57th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Statham, see the exposure-zones guide.