Ocilla, GA
How exposed is Ocilla to wildfire?
Ocilla sits at the 54th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,510 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ocilla's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 54th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Ocilla's buildings (53.6%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Ocilla against the rest of the country
Inside Georgia, Ocilla sits at just the 10th percentile even though it scores 54th 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, Ocilla ranks 14,646 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,115 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 601 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Ocilla and the insurance market
Ocilla's elevated rating (54th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Ocilla
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Ocilla (53.6% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,510 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Ocilla. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Ocilla, see the exposure-zones guide.