Kennesaw, GA
Kennesaw, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kennesaw at the 62nd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 9,427 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kennesaw at the 66th percentile, close to its 62nd-percentile risk score.
Where Kennesaw's buildings actually sit
Only 23.4% of Kennesaw's 9,427 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0.7% carry Indirect; the remaining 75.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 9,427 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Kennesaw compares
Inside Georgia, Kennesaw sits at just the 28th percentile even though it scores 62nd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kennesaw ranks 11,974 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,732 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 486 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
Kennesaw's 62nd-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
Even with 75.9% of Kennesaw outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Kennesaw's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 9,427 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kennesaw. The exposure-zones guide covers what Kennesaw's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.