Waverly Hall, GA
Waverly Hall wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Waverly Hall at the 77th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 413 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Waverly Hall at the 80th percentile, close to its 77th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 84% of Waverly Hall's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 16% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 347 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Waverly Hall against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Waverly Hall's 77th national percentile and its 85th percentile inside Georgia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Waverly Hall ranks 7,276 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,964 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 101 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Waverly Hall and the insurance market
Waverly Hall's high rating (77th 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.
Hardening a home in Waverly Hall
Waverly Hall's 84% 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
Waverly Hall's 77th-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 Waverly Hall, see the exposure-zones guide.