Bishop, GA
Bishop wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Bishop at the 65th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 203 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bishop at the 68th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Bishop's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Bishop: 86.2% of its 203 buildings, versus 13.8% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Bishop against the rest of the country
Inside Georgia, Bishop sits at just the 41st percentile even though it scores 65th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bishop ranks 11,116 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,720 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 395 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 65th percentile nationally, Bishop carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Bishop's 86.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Bishop's 65th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bishop, see the exposure-zones guide.