Ball Ground, GA
How exposed is Ball Ground to wildfire?
USFS scores Ball Ground at the 65th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,070 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Ball Ground at the 68th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Ball Ground's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Ball Ground's 1,070 counted buildings, 73.6% 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 Ball Ground compares
Ball Ground ranks lower within Georgia (44th percentile statewide) than its 65th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ball Ground ranks 10,930 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,460 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 377 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ball Ground
Ball Ground's 65th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Ball Ground (73.6%), 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,070 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Ball Ground. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Ball Ground, see the exposure-zones guide.