Holly Springs, GA
Holly Springs, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Holly Springs sits at the 66th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 5,620 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Holly Springs at the 70th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Holly Springs's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 51.8% of Holly Springs's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 48.2% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 2,910 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most. At 5,620 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Holly Springs ranks
Holly Springs's 66th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 49th ranking inside Georgia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 18 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Holly Springs ranks 10,674 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,075 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 345 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Holly Springs
Holly Springs'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
With 51.8% of Holly Springs in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Holly Springs's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Holly Springs's 10,674-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Holly Springs's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.