Winterville, GA
How exposed is Winterville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Winterville lands at the 64th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 765 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Winterville at the 68th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Winterville's building exposure, zone by zone
87.2% of Winterville's 765 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 667 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 12.8% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Winterville ranks
Winterville's 64th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 39th ranking inside Georgia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 26 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Winterville ranks 11,218 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,958 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 410 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Winterville and the insurance market
Winterville's 64th-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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Winterville (87.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Winterville's 11,218-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Winterville, see the exposure-zones guide.