Crescent, GA
Crescent, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Crescent at the 94th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 549 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 Crescent at the 91st percentile, close to its 94th-percentile risk score.
Crescent's building exposure, zone by zone
92.7% of Crescent's 549 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 509 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 5.8% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 1.5% are Minimal.
Where Crescent ranks
Crescent scores 94th nationally and 100th 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, Crescent ranks 1,855 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,578 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 3 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Crescent and the insurance market
Crescent's 94th-percentile, very 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 Crescent
Because Direct exposure dominates in Crescent (92.7%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Crescent's 94th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Crescent, see the exposure-zones guide.