Barker Ten Mile, NC
Barker Ten Mile, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Barker Ten Mile at the 81st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 577 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Barker Ten Mile at the 81st national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Barker Ten Mile's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Barker Ten Mile: 94.8% of its 577 buildings, versus 5.2% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Barker Ten Mile compares
Barker Ten Mile scores 81st nationally and 86th within North Carolina — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Barker Ten Mile ranks 6,152 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,152 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 108 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Barker Ten Mile and the insurance market
At the 81st percentile nationally, Barker Ten Mile 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Barker Ten Mile's 94.8% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 577 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Barker Ten Mile. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Barker Ten Mile, see the exposure-zones guide.