Bolivia, NC
Bolivia wildfire risk explained
Bolivia's 147 buildings earn a 87th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bolivia at the 86th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Bolivia's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Bolivia: 86.4% of its 147 buildings, versus 13.6% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Bolivia ranks
Bolivia's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Carolina (96th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (87th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bolivia ranks 4,228 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,997 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 32 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bolivia
Bolivia's 87th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Bolivia
Because Direct exposure dominates in Bolivia (86.4%), 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
Bolivia's 87th-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 Bolivia, see the exposure-zones guide.