Sharon, GA
How exposed is Sharon to wildfire?
Sharon's 115 buildings earn a 76th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sharon at the 78th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Sharon's buildings actually sit
Of Sharon's 115 counted buildings, 100% 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.
Where Sharon ranks
Sharon's risk sits at a similar level relative to Georgia (83rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (76th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sharon ranks 7,687 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,401 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 115 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sharon
Sharon's 76th-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 Sharon (100%), 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 115 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sharon. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sharon, see the exposure-zones guide.