Ranger, GA
How exposed is Ranger to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Ranger lands at the 72nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 131 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Ranger at the 74th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Ranger's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Ranger's 131 counted buildings, 81.7% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Ranger against the rest of the country
Ranger scores 72nd nationally and 74th within Georgia — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ranger ranks 8,694 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,658 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 175 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Ranger and the insurance market
Ranger'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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Ranger (81.7%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Ranger'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 direct exposure implies beyond Ranger, see the exposure-zones guide.