Tennille, GA
Tennille wildfire risk explained
Tennille sits at the 61st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,019 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Tennille's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 62nd percentile nationally.
Where Tennille's buildings actually sit
Most of Tennille's buildings (57.9%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Tennille compares
Tennille ranks lower within Georgia (22nd percentile statewide) than its 61st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tennille ranks 12,312 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,803 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 522 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tennille
Tennille's 61st-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 Tennille
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Tennille (57.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tennille's 12,312-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Tennille, see the exposure-zones guide.