Tiger, GA
Tiger wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Tiger at the 83rd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 232 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tiger at the 84th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Tiger's building exposure, zone by zone
232 buildings are counted in Tiger, and 81.5% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Tiger compares
There's little gap between Tiger's 83rd national percentile and its 94th percentile inside Georgia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tiger ranks 5,418 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,727 by building count (1 is largest). Within Georgia alone, it ranks 42 of 669 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Georgia on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 83rd percentile nationally, Tiger carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Tiger (81.5%), 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tiger's 5,418-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Tiger, see the exposure-zones guide.