Clemmons, NC
Clemmons wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Clemmons at the 51st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 8,077 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Clemmons at the 54th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Clemmons's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 63.5% of Clemmons's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 22.2% Indirect share and far above its 14.3% Minimal share — a profile where 5,127 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most. At 8,077 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Clemmons against the rest of the country
Clemmons's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Carolina (40th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (51st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Clemmons ranks 15,546 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,078 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 463 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Clemmons and the insurance market
Clemmons's elevated rating (51st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Clemmons
Clemmons's 63.5% 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 Clemmons's 15,546-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Clemmons, see the exposure-zones guide.