Canoochee, GA
Canoochee, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Canoochee at the 67th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 73 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Canoochee's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 67th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 83.6% of Canoochee's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 16.4% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 61 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Canoochee compares
There's little gap between Canoochee's 67th national percentile and its 52nd percentile inside Georgia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Canoochee ranks 10,525 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,162 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 321 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Canoochee
Canoochee's 67th-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.
Hardening a home in Canoochee
Canoochee's 83.6% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 73 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Canoochee. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Canoochee, see the exposure-zones guide.