Norcross, GA
How exposed is Norcross to wildfire?
USFS scores Norcross at the 44th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 4,404 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Norcross at the 47th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Norcross's building exposure, zone by zone
81.1% of Norcross's 4,404 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 18.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Norcross compares
Norcross's 44th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 0th ranking inside Georgia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 44 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Norcross ranks 17,640 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,879 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 669 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Norcross and the insurance market
Norcross's elevated rating (44th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Norcross's 81.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,404 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Norcross. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Norcross, see the exposure-zones guide.