Sasser, GA
Sasser, GA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Sasser lands at the 50th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 264 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sasser at the 49th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Sasser's buildings actually sit
Sasser rates 52.3% Minimal exposure against just 36.7% Direct and 11% Indirect — of 264 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Sasser against the rest of the country
Sasser's 50th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 5th ranking inside Georgia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 45 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sasser ranks 15,779 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,692 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 635 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sasser
At the 50th national percentile, Sasser rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Sasser
Even with 52.3% of Sasser 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sasser's 15,779-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Sasser, see the exposure-zones guide.