Rochelle, GA
Rochelle wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Rochelle lands at the 61st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 917 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 Rochelle at the 62nd percentile, close to its 61st-percentile risk score.
Rochelle's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Rochelle's buildings (57.4%) 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.
Rochelle against the rest of the country
Rochelle ranks lower within Georgia (22nd percentile statewide) than its 61st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rochelle ranks 12,284 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,579 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 521 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
Rochelle's 61st-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.
Hardening a home in Rochelle
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Rochelle (57.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Rochelle's 61st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Rochelle, see the exposure-zones guide.