Brookford, NC
How exposed is Brookford to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Brookford lands at the 31st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 291 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brookford at the 34th percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Brookford's buildings (60.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Brookford against the rest of the country
Brookford's 31st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 3rd ranking inside North Carolina does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 28 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brookford ranks 21,813 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,883 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 746 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Brookford and the insurance market
Brookford's moderate wildfire rating (31st percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Brookford
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Brookford (60.5% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Brookford's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 291 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Brookford. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brookford's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.