Orchard Hill, GA
Orchard Hill, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Orchard Hill lands at the 70th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 142 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Orchard Hill at the 74th percentile, close to its 70th-percentile risk score.
Where Orchard Hill's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Orchard Hill: 64.8% of its 142 buildings, versus 35.2% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Orchard Hill compares
Orchard Hill's risk sits at a similar level relative to Georgia (66th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (70th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Orchard Hill ranks 9,324 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,196 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 225 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Orchard Hill's 70th-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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Orchard Hill (64.8%), 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Orchard Hill's 9,324-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Orchard Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.