Bent Creek, NC
Bent Creek wildfire risk explained
Bent Creek's 704 buildings earn a 64th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bent Creek at the 67th percentile, close to its 64th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
704 buildings are counted in Bent Creek, and 91.1% 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% rated Minimal.
Where Bent Creek ranks
Bent Creek's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Carolina (63rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (64th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bent Creek ranks 11,354 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,613 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 286 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bent Creek
Bent Creek's high rating (64th 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
Bent Creek's 91.1% 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
Bent Creek's 64th-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 Bent Creek, see the exposure-zones guide.