Ringgold, GA
Ringgold, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ringgold at the 70th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,662 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ringgold's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 74th percentile nationally.
Ringgold's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Ringgold's buildings (70.5%) 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.
How Ringgold compares
Ringgold scores 70th nationally and 66th 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, Ringgold ranks 9,354 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,552 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 232 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Ringgold and the insurance market
Ringgold's high rating (70th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Ringgold
Because 70.5% of Ringgold's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,662 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Ringgold. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Ringgold, see the exposure-zones guide.