Bethania, NC
Bethania wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Bethania at the 23rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 270 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Bethania's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 25th percentile nationally.
Bethania's building exposure, zone by zone
270 buildings are counted in Bethania, and 90.7% 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.
How Bethania compares
Inside North Carolina, Bethania sits at just the 0th percentile even though it scores 23rd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bethania ranks 24,183 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,510 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 769 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Bethania and the insurance market
Bethania's moderate rating (23rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Bethania
With 90.7% of Bethania 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 270 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bethania. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bethania, see the exposure-zones guide.