Cedartown, GA
Cedartown wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Cedartown at the 84th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 4,177 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Cedartown at the 88th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Cedartown's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Cedartown (63.5% of 4,177 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 25.4% sit in the Direct zone.
How Cedartown compares
There's little gap between Cedartown's 84th national percentile and its 95th percentile inside Georgia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cedartown ranks 4,976 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,073 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 33 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cedartown
At the 84th percentile nationally, Cedartown carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 63.5% of Cedartown's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cedartown's 4,976-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Cedartown, see the exposure-zones guide.