Boykin, GA
Boykin, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Boykin lands at the 56th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 113 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Boykin at the 57th percentile, close to its 56th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 97.4% of Boykin's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 2.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 110 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Boykin against the rest of the country
Boykin's 56th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 12th ranking inside Georgia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 43 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Boykin ranks 13,921 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,490 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 586 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Boykin and the insurance market
Boykin's elevated wildfire rating (56th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Boykin's 97.4% 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 Boykin's 13,921-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Boykin, see the exposure-zones guide.