Braswell, GA
Braswell wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Braswell at the 75th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 141 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Braswell's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 78th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
141 buildings are counted in Braswell, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Braswell compares
Braswell scores 75th nationally and 82nd within Georgia — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Braswell ranks 7,872 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,237 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 124 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Braswell and the insurance market
Braswell's 75th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 100% of Braswell 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.
More on how this number was built
Braswell's 75th-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 Braswell, see the exposure-zones guide.