Willacoochee, GA
How exposed is Willacoochee to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Willacoochee at the 70th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 804 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 Willacoochee at the 70th percentile, close to its 70th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
804 buildings are counted in Willacoochee, and 51.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 48.3% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Willacoochee compares
There's little gap between Willacoochee's 70th national percentile and its 67th percentile inside Georgia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Willacoochee ranks 9,325 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,596 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 226 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Willacoochee and the insurance market
At the 70th percentile nationally, Willacoochee carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Willacoochee
Willacoochee's 51.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Willacoochee's 9,325-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Willacoochee, see the exposure-zones guide.