Cedar Point, NC
How exposed is Cedar Point to wildfire?
Cedar Point's 1,610 buildings earn a 74th-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 Cedar Point at the 69th national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Cedar Point's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 30.7% of Cedar Point's 1,610 buildings carry Direct exposure and 7.8% carry Indirect; the remaining 61.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Cedar Point compares
There's little gap between Cedar Point's 74th national percentile and its 76th 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, Cedar Point ranks 8,197 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,729 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 190 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Cedar Point and the insurance market
At the 74th percentile nationally, Cedar Point 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 61.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Cedar Point gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Cedar Point's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cedar Point's 8,197-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Cedar Point's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.