Greenville, GA
How exposed is Greenville to wildfire?
USFS scores Greenville at the 75th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 544 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Greenville at the 78th percentile, close to its 75th-percentile risk score.
Greenville's building exposure, zone by zone
59.4% of Greenville's 544 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 323 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 40.6% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Greenville ranks
There's little gap between Greenville's 75th national percentile and its 83rd percentile inside Georgia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Greenville ranks 7,784 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,651 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 118 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
Greenville's 75th-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.
Hardening a home in Greenville
Greenville's 59.4% 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.
Where Greenville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 544 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Greenville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Greenville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.