Kings Bay Base, GA
How exposed is Kings Bay Base to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kings Bay Base at the 73rd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 416 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kings Bay Base at the 68th percentile, close to its 73rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
57% of Kings Bay Base's 416 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 35.3% Direct and 7.7% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Kings Bay Base compares
Kings Bay Base's risk sits at a similar level relative to Georgia (77th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (73rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kings Bay Base ranks 8,443 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,902 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 158 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Kings Bay Base and the insurance market
Kings Bay Base's 73rd-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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Kings Bay Base (57% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kings Bay Base's 8,443-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kings Bay Base, see the exposure-zones guide.