Concord, GA
How exposed is Concord to wildfire?
Concord sits at the 73rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 241 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Concord at the 76th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Concord's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Concord: 76.8% of its 241 buildings, versus 23.2% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Concord compares
There's little gap between Concord's 73rd national percentile and its 75th percentile inside Georgia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Concord ranks 8,659 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,418 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 171 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Concord
Concord's 73rd-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
Concord's 76.8% 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.
Where Concord's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 241 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Concord. The exposure-zones guide covers what Concord's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.