Locust Grove, GA
Locust Grove wildfire risk explained
Locust Grove's 3,581 buildings earn a 63rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Locust Grove at the 66th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Locust Grove's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Locust Grove: 55.2% of its 3,581 buildings, versus 44.6% Indirect and 0.2% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Locust Grove compares
Inside Georgia, Locust Grove sits at just the 30th percentile even though it scores 63rd 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, Locust Grove ranks 11,719 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,677 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 464 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Locust Grove and the insurance market
Locust Grove's high rating (63rd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Locust Grove's 55.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
Locust Grove's 63rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Locust Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.