Oak Park, GA
Oak Park wildfire risk explained
Oak Park's 378 buildings earn a 69th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Oak Park at the 68th percentile, close to its 69th-percentile risk score.
Where Oak Park's buildings actually sit
Of Oak Park's 378 counted buildings, 73.3% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Oak Park compares
Oak Park scores 69th nationally and 62nd within Georgia — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Oak Park ranks 9,765 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,680 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 257 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Oak Park
Oak Park'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.
Hardening a home in Oak Park
Oak Park's 73.3% 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.
Where Oak Park's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Oak Park's 9,765-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Oak Park's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.