Tunnel Hill, GA
Tunnel Hill wildfire risk explained
Tunnel Hill's 542 buildings earn a 72nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Tunnel Hill at the 76th percentile, close to its 72nd-percentile risk score.
Where Tunnel Hill's buildings actually sit
Of Tunnel Hill's 542 counted buildings, 53% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Tunnel Hill compares
Tunnel Hill scores 72nd nationally and 73rd within Georgia — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tunnel Hill ranks 8,761 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,677 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 181 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tunnel Hill
Tunnel Hill's 72nd-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 53% of Tunnel Hill 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 542 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Tunnel Hill. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Tunnel Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.