Lake Park, GA
Lake Park wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lake Park at the 66th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 512 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 Lake Park at the 65th percentile, close to its 66th-percentile risk score.
Lake Park's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 66.4% of Lake Park's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 25.8% Indirect share and far above its 7.8% Minimal share — a profile where 340 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Lake Park against the rest of the country
Lake Park's 66th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 47th ranking inside Georgia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 19 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lake Park ranks 10,740 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,146 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 351 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lake Park
Lake Park's 66th-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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Lake Park (66.4%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Lake Park's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 512 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lake Park. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lake Park's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.