Reidsville, GA
Reidsville, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Reidsville lands at the 70th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,373 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 Reidsville at the 70th percentile, close to its 70th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Reidsville: 62% of its 1,373 buildings, versus 38% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Reidsville against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Reidsville's 70th national percentile and its 65th percentile inside Georgia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Reidsville ranks 9,419 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,738 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 238 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Reidsville and the insurance market
Reidsville'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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Reidsville (62%), 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
Reidsville's 70th-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 Reidsville, see the exposure-zones guide.