Bowersville, GA
Bowersville, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Bowersville at the 62nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 285 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Bowersville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 66th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Bowersville: 90.2% of its 285 buildings, versus 9.8% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Bowersville compares
Bowersville ranks lower within Georgia (28th percentile statewide) than its 62nd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bowersville ranks 11,940 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,029 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 483 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bowersville
Bowersville's 62nd-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
Bowersville's 90.2% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bowersville's 11,940-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bowersville, see the exposure-zones guide.