Brices Creek, NC
How exposed is Brices Creek to wildfire?
Brices Creek's 1,646 buildings earn a 65th-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 Brices Creek at the 64th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Brices Creek's building exposure, zone by zone
87.1% of Brices Creek's 1,646 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 1,434 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 12.7% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0.2% are Minimal.
How Brices Creek compares
Brices Creek's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Carolina (65th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (65th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brices Creek ranks 11,069 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,602 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 272 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Brices Creek and the insurance market
At the 65th percentile nationally, Brices Creek 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 Brices Creek
Brices Creek's 87.1% 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.
Where Brices Creek's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brices Creek's 11,069-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brices Creek's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.