Pearson, GA
Pearson, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Pearson sits at the 72nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,000 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pearson at the 71st percentile, close to its 72nd-percentile risk score.
Where Pearson's buildings actually sit
50.4% of Pearson's 1,000 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 49.6% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Pearson against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Pearson's 72nd national percentile and its 71st percentile inside Georgia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pearson ranks 8,881 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,933 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 196 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Pearson and the insurance market
Pearson's 72nd-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.
Hardening a home in Pearson
Because 50.4% of Pearson's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Pearson's 72nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pearson, see the exposure-zones guide.