Crooked Creek, GA
Crooked Creek, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Crooked Creek at the 73rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 673 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Crooked Creek at the 74th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Crooked Creek's 673 counted buildings, 97% carry Direct exposure and only 3% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Crooked Creek ranks
There's little gap between Crooked Creek's 73rd national percentile and its 76th percentile inside Georgia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crooked Creek ranks 8,539 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,940 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 160 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Crooked Creek and the insurance market
Crooked Creek'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.
Hardening a home in Crooked Creek
Because Direct exposure dominates in Crooked Creek (97%), 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
Crooked Creek's 73rd-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 Crooked Creek, see the exposure-zones guide.