Norwood, GA
How exposed is Norwood to wildfire?
Norwood's 189 buildings earn a 75th-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 Norwood at the 77th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Norwood's building exposure, zone by zone
189 buildings are counted in Norwood, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Norwood against the rest of the country
Norwood's risk sits at a similar level relative to Georgia (82nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (75th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Norwood ranks 7,845 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,274 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 123 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Norwood and the insurance market
Norwood's 75th-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.
Hardening a home in Norwood
Because Direct exposure dominates in Norwood (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Norwood's 75th-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 Norwood, see the exposure-zones guide.