Sugar Hill, GA
Sugar Hill wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Sugar Hill lands at the 52nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 8,220 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sugar Hill at the 55th percentile, close to its 52nd-percentile risk score.
Sugar Hill's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Sugar Hill: 39.2% of its 8,220 buildings, versus 23.7% Indirect and 37.1% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap. At 8,220 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Sugar Hill ranks
Sugar Hill's 52nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 7th 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, Sugar Hill ranks 15,185 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,038 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 622 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sugar Hill
At the 52nd national percentile, Sugar Hill rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Sugar Hill's 39.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Sugar Hill's 52nd-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 Sugar Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.