Box Springs, GA
Box Springs wildfire risk explained
Box Springs's 307 buildings earn a 73rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Box Springs's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 74th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 98.7% of Box Springs's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 1.3% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 303 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Box Springs compares
There's little gap between Box Springs's 73rd national percentile and its 74th percentile inside Georgia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Box Springs ranks 8,658 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,438 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 170 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Box Springs and the insurance market
At the 73rd percentile nationally, Box Springs 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Box Springs (98.7%), 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 Box Springs's 8,658-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Box Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.