Canton, GA
Canton, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Canton's 8,681 buildings earn a 63rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Canton at the 65th percentile, close to its 63rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Canton (47.8% of 8,681 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 38.8% sit in the Direct zone. At 8,681 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Canton against the rest of the country
Canton ranks lower within Georgia (29th percentile statewide) than its 63rd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Canton ranks 11,810 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,918 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 472 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Canton
Canton's 63rd-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 ember exposure the dominant pattern in Canton (47.8% 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 Canton's 11,810-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Canton, see the exposure-zones guide.