Dearing, GA
Dearing, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Dearing's 384 buildings earn a 69th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Dearing at the 69th percentile, close to its 69th-percentile risk score.
Dearing's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Dearing: 69.8% of its 384 buildings, versus 30.2% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Dearing ranks
Dearing scores 69th nationally and 61st 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, Dearing ranks 9,828 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,540 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 260 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dearing
Dearing's 69th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Dearing's 69.8% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Dearing's 9,828-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Dearing, see the exposure-zones guide.