Candor, NC
Candor, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Candor's 505 buildings earn a 71st-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Candor at the 72nd percentile, close to its 71st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
61.8% of Candor's 505 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 312 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 38.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Candor against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Candor's 71st national percentile and its 71st percentile inside North Carolina, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Candor ranks 9,209 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,258 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 223 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Candor
Candor's 71st-percentile, 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 61.8% of Candor in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 505 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Candor. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Candor, see the exposure-zones guide.