Cedar Rock, NC
Cedar Rock, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Cedar Rock at the 54th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 143 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Cedar Rock at the 56th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Cedar Rock's building exposure, zone by zone
100% of Cedar Rock's 143 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 143 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Cedar Rock ranks
Cedar Rock scores 54th nationally and 50th 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, Cedar Rock ranks 14,407 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,169 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 387 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Cedar Rock and the insurance market
Cedar Rock's elevated rating (54th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 100% of Cedar Rock 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
Cedar Rock's 54th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Cedar Rock, see the exposure-zones guide.