Taylorsville, GA
Taylorsville, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Taylorsville at the 74th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 213 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Taylorsville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 77th percentile nationally.
Taylorsville's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Taylorsville's 213 counted buildings, 99.1% 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.
Taylorsville against the rest of the country
Taylorsville scores 74th nationally and 80th 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, Taylorsville ranks 8,124 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,357 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 135 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Taylorsville
Taylorsville's 74th-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 Taylorsville
With 99.1% of Taylorsville in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Taylorsville's 8,124-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Taylorsville, see the exposure-zones guide.