Grovetown, GA
Grovetown, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Grovetown at the 66th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 5,289 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Grovetown at the 66th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Grovetown's buildings (76.8%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 5,289 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Grovetown against the rest of the country
Inside Georgia, Grovetown sits at just the 45th percentile even though it scores 66th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grovetown ranks 10,835 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,259 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 365 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Grovetown and the insurance market
Grovetown's 66th-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
Grovetown's 76.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Grovetown's 10,835-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Grovetown, see the exposure-zones guide.