Richland, GA
Richland, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Richland lands at the 67th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 838 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 Richland at the 66th percentile, close to its 67th-percentile risk score.
Richland's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Richland's 838 counted buildings, 67.1% 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.
Richland against the rest of the country
Richland scores 67th nationally and 52nd 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, Richland ranks 10,529 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,267 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 325 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Richland
Richland's 67th-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
Richland's 67.1% 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.
More on how this number was built
Richland's 67th-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 Richland, see the exposure-zones guide.