Dawsonville, GA
Dawsonville, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Dawsonville at the 77th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,411 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dawsonville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 80th percentile nationally.
Dawsonville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 70.3% of Dawsonville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 29.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 992 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Dawsonville against the rest of the country
Dawsonville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Georgia (86th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (77th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dawsonville ranks 7,215 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,581 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 95 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dawsonville
Dawsonville's 77th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Dawsonville's 70.3% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,411 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Dawsonville. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Dawsonville, see the exposure-zones guide.