Barnardsville, NC
Barnardsville, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Barnardsville's 487 buildings earn a 79th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Barnardsville at the 82nd national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Barnardsville's 487 counted buildings, 93.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Barnardsville ranks
There's little gap between Barnardsville's 79th national percentile and its 82nd percentile inside North Carolina, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Barnardsville ranks 6,747 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,586 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 138 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Barnardsville and the insurance market
Barnardsville's high rating (79th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
With 93.2% of Barnardsville in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Barnardsville's 79th-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 Barnardsville, see the exposure-zones guide.