Evans, GA
How exposed is Evans to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Evans lands at the 69th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 13,226 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Evans at the 72nd percentile, close to its 69th-percentile risk score.
Where Evans's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Evans (52% of 13,226 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 45.8% sit in the Direct zone. At 13,226 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Evans against the rest of the country
Evans's risk sits at a similar level relative to Georgia (62nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (69th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Evans ranks 9,763 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,154 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 255 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Evans
Evans's high rating (69th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Evans
Evans's 52% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 13,226 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Evans. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Evans, see the exposure-zones guide.