Bath, NC
Bath wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bath at the 54th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 280 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bath at the 51st national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Bath's buildings actually sit
280 buildings are counted in Bath, and 64.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 19.6% rated Minimal.
Where Bath ranks
Bath's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Carolina (49th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (54th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bath ranks 14,507 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,196 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 394 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bath
At the 54th national percentile, Bath 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
Bath's 64.6% 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.
Where Bath's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bath's 14,507-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bath's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.