Social Circle, GA
Social Circle, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Social Circle sits at the 63rd 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 2,289 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 Social Circle at the 66th percentile, close to its 63rd-percentile risk score.
Social Circle's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Social Circle's 2,289 counted buildings, 56% 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.
Where Social Circle ranks
Inside Georgia, Social Circle sits at just the 33rd percentile even though it scores 63rd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Social Circle ranks 11,563 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,725 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 449 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Social Circle
Social Circle's 63rd-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 Social Circle
Because Direct exposure dominates in Social Circle (56%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Social Circle's 63rd-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 Social Circle, see the exposure-zones guide.