Aquadale, NC
Aquadale wildfire risk explained
Aquadale's 370 buildings earn a 44th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Aquadale's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 47th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Aquadale: 90.8% of its 370 buildings, versus 9.2% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Aquadale compares
Inside North Carolina, Aquadale sits at just the 23rd percentile even though it scores 44th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Aquadale ranks 17,692 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,861 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 597 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Aquadale and the insurance market
At the 44th national percentile, Aquadale rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Aquadale's 90.8% 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
Aquadale's 44th-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 Aquadale, see the exposure-zones guide.