Dallas, GA
Dallas wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Dallas at the 81st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 4,775 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dallas's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 84th percentile nationally.
Where Dallas's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 65.9% of Dallas's 4,775 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 34.1% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Dallas ranks
Dallas's risk sits at a similar level relative to Georgia (92nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (81st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dallas ranks 6,049 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,576 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 54 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Dallas and the insurance market
Dallas's 81st-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 65.9% of Dallas'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
Dallas's 81st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Dallas, see the exposure-zones guide.