Warm Springs, GA
Warm Springs, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Warm Springs sits at the 76th 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 270 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 Warm Springs at the 79th percentile, close to its 76th-percentile risk score.
Warm Springs's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Warm Springs: 63% of its 270 buildings, versus 37% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Warm Springs compares
Warm Springs's risk sits at a similar level relative to Georgia (84th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (76th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Warm Springs ranks 7,502 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,497 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 108 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Warm Springs and the insurance market
Warm Springs's 76th-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 Warm Springs
Warm Springs's 63% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Warm Springs's 7,502-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Warm Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.