Dock Junction, GA
How exposed is Dock Junction to wildfire?
Dock Junction's 4,372 buildings earn a 82nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Dock Junction at the 74th percentile, close to its 82nd-percentile risk score.
Where Dock Junction's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Dock Junction: 53.7% of its 4,372 buildings, versus 6.1% Indirect and 40.2% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Dock Junction compares
Dock Junction's risk sits at a similar level relative to Georgia (93rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (82nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dock Junction ranks 5,610 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,907 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 45 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dock Junction
Dock Junction's 82nd-percentile, very 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
Dock Junction's 53.7% 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.
Where Dock Junction's figures come from
Dock Junction's 82nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Dock Junction's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.