Augusta-Richmond County consolidated government (balance), GA
Augusta-Richmond County consolidated government (balance), GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Augusta-Richmond County consolidated government (balance) lands at the 66th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 87,469 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Augusta-Richmond County consolidated government (balance)'s burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 66th percentile nationally.
Augusta-Richmond County consolidated government (balance)'s building exposure, zone by zone
Augusta-Richmond County consolidated government (balance) rates 38.5% Minimal exposure against just 28.9% Direct and 32.6% Indirect — of 87,469 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 87,469 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Augusta-Richmond County consolidated government (balance) ranks
Augusta-Richmond County consolidated government (balance) ranks lower within Georgia (48th percentile statewide) than its 66th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Augusta-Richmond County consolidated government (balance) ranks 10,711 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 84 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 347 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Augusta-Richmond County consolidated government (balance)
Augusta-Richmond County consolidated government (balance)'s 66th-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 Augusta-Richmond County consolidated government (balance)
With 38.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Augusta-Richmond County consolidated government (balance) gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Augusta-Richmond County consolidated government (balance)'s 10,711-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Augusta-Richmond County consolidated government (balance), see the exposure-zones guide.