Rome, GA
Rome wildfire risk explained
Rome's 14,703 buildings earn a 78th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rome at the 81st percentile, close to its 78th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
65.9% of Rome's 14,703 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 32.7% Direct and 1.4% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 14,703 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Rome against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Rome's 78th national percentile and its 89th percentile inside Georgia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rome ranks 6,838 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,011 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 75 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Rome and the insurance market
At the 78th percentile nationally, Rome carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Rome
Rome's 65.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 14,703 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Rome. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Rome, see the exposure-zones guide.