Vernonburg, GA
How exposed is Vernonburg to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Vernonburg lands at the 85th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 103 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 Vernonburg at the 80th percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
Where Vernonburg's buildings actually sit
Of Vernonburg's 103 counted buildings, 100% 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.
Vernonburg against the rest of the country
Vernonburg's risk sits at a similar level relative to Georgia (96th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (85th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Vernonburg ranks 4,756 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,882 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 26 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Vernonburg and the insurance market
Vernonburg's very high rating (85th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Vernonburg (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Vernonburg's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Vernonburg's 4,756-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Vernonburg's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.