Calhoun, GA
Calhoun, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Calhoun at the 66th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 5,838 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Calhoun at the 70th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Calhoun's buildings actually sit
Most of Calhoun's buildings (50.6%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 5,838 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Calhoun compares
Calhoun ranks lower within Georgia (50th percentile statewide) than its 66th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Calhoun ranks 10,612 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,950 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 334 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Calhoun
Calhoun's 66th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Calhoun (50.6% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Calhoun's 10,612-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Calhoun, see the exposure-zones guide.