Creswell, NC
Creswell, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Creswell's 218 buildings earn a 63rd-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Creswell's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 60th percentile nationally.
Where Creswell's buildings actually sit
218 buildings are counted in Creswell, and 63.8% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Creswell compares
Creswell's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Carolina (62nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (63rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Creswell ranks 11,547 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,211 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 292 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Creswell's 63rd-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
Creswell's 63.8% 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 Creswell's 11,547-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Creswell, see the exposure-zones guide.