Rock Spring, GA
How exposed is Rock Spring to wildfire?
Rock Spring sits at the 78th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 589 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rock Spring at the 82nd percentile, close to its 78th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
86.3% of Rock Spring's 589 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 508 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 13.8% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Rock Spring compares
Rock Spring scores 78th nationally and 88th 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, Rock Spring ranks 6,932 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,974 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 80 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Rock Spring and the insurance market
Rock Spring's 78th-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 Rock Spring (86.3%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Rock Spring's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 589 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Rock Spring. The exposure-zones guide covers what Rock Spring's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.