Berkeley Lake, GA
How exposed is Berkeley Lake to wildfire?
USFS scores Berkeley Lake at the 45th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 887 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Berkeley Lake at the 48th percentile, close to its 45th-percentile risk score.
Berkeley Lake's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Berkeley Lake: 61.3% of its 887 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 38.7% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Berkeley Lake compares
Inside Georgia, Berkeley Lake sits at just the 0th percentile even though it scores 45th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Berkeley Lake ranks 17,327 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,839 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 668 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Berkeley Lake
Berkeley Lake's elevated rating (45th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 61.3% of Berkeley Lake 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.
Where Berkeley Lake's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Berkeley Lake's 17,327-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Berkeley Lake's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.