Jasper, GA
Jasper wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Jasper lands at the 69th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,855 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 Jasper at the 71st percentile, close to its 69th-percentile risk score.
Jasper's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Jasper: 57.2% of its 1,855 buildings, versus 42.8% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Jasper against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Jasper's 69th national percentile and its 59th percentile inside Georgia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jasper ranks 9,923 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,895 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 272 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Jasper and the insurance market
Jasper's 69th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Jasper (57.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Jasper's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Jasper's 9,923-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Jasper's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.