Broadway, NC
Broadway wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Broadway at the 53rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 767 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Broadway at the 55th percentile, close to its 53rd-percentile risk score.
Where Broadway's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Broadway: 57.4% of its 767 buildings, versus 42.6% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Broadway compares
Broadway scores 53rd nationally and 46th within North Carolina — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Broadway ranks 14,814 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,947 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 413 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Broadway and the insurance market
At the 53rd national percentile, Broadway rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Broadway's 57.4% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Broadway's 14,814-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Broadway, see the exposure-zones guide.