Boiling Springs, NC
How exposed is Boiling Springs to wildfire?
Boiling Springs's 1,778 buildings earn a 62nd-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Boiling Springs's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 66th percentile nationally.
Where Boiling Springs's buildings actually sit
Of Boiling Springs's 1,778 counted buildings, 76.1% 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 Boiling Springs ranks
Boiling Springs's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Carolina (61st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (62nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Boiling Springs ranks 11,922 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,132 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 305 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Boiling Springs and the insurance market
At the 62nd percentile nationally, Boiling Springs 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 Boiling Springs
Because Direct exposure dominates in Boiling Springs (76.1%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Boiling Springs's 62nd-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 Boiling Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.