Flowery Branch, GA
Flowery Branch wildfire risk explained
Flowery Branch sits at the 55th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 3,936 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Flowery Branch at the 59th national percentile — 3 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
3,936 buildings are counted in Flowery Branch, and 57.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 42.2% in Direct exposure or the 0.7% rated Minimal.
How Flowery Branch compares
Flowery Branch's 55th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 12th ranking inside Georgia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 43 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Flowery Branch ranks 14,051 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,299 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 588 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Flowery Branch's elevated rating (55th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Flowery Branch's 57.1% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Flowery Branch's 14,051-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Flowery Branch, see the exposure-zones guide.