Bayboro, NC
Bayboro, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Bayboro's 508 buildings earn a 77th-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 Bayboro at the 69th national percentile — 8 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
508 buildings are counted in Bayboro, and 68.5% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0.2% rated Minimal.
Bayboro against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Bayboro's 77th national percentile and its 79th 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, Bayboro ranks 7,378 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,212 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 165 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Bayboro and the insurance market
At the 77th percentile nationally, Bayboro carries the 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.
Hardening a home in Bayboro
With 68.5% of Bayboro 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bayboro's 7,378-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bayboro, see the exposure-zones guide.