Cornelia, GA
Cornelia wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Cornelia at the 70th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 2,115 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cornelia at the 74th percentile, close to its 70th-percentile risk score.
Cornelia's building exposure, zone by zone
2,115 buildings are counted in Cornelia, and 64.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 35.3% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Cornelia ranks
Cornelia scores 70th nationally and 66th within Georgia — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cornelia ranks 9,350 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,151 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 228 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cornelia
Cornelia's high rating (70th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Cornelia
Because 64.7% of Cornelia'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.
Where Cornelia's figures come from
Cornelia's 70th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Cornelia's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.