Asheboro, NC
Asheboro wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Asheboro at the 34th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 10,667 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Asheboro's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 36th percentile nationally.
Where Asheboro's buildings actually sit
Most of Asheboro's buildings (49.8%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 10,667 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Asheboro against the rest of the country
Inside North Carolina, Asheboro sits at just the 6th percentile even though it scores 34th 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, Asheboro ranks 20,745 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,492 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 724 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Asheboro's moderate rating (34th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Asheboro (49.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 10,667 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Asheboro. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Asheboro, see the exposure-zones guide.