Riceboro, GA
Riceboro, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Riceboro at the 80th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 439 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Riceboro at the 77th percentile, close to its 80th-percentile risk score.
Where Riceboro's buildings actually sit
439 buildings are counted in Riceboro, and 88.8% 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.
How Riceboro compares
There's little gap between Riceboro's 80th national percentile and its 91st percentile inside Georgia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Riceboro ranks 6,238 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,475 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 60 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Riceboro and the insurance market
Riceboro's 80th-percentile, very 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
Riceboro's 88.8% 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 Riceboro's figures come from
Riceboro's 80th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Riceboro's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.