Dallas, NC
How exposed is Dallas to wildfire?
USFS scores Dallas at the 54th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 2,267 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Dallas at the 58th percentile, close to its 54th-percentile risk score.
Dallas's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Dallas's buildings (61.7%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Dallas ranks
There's little gap between Dallas's 54th national percentile and its 49th 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, Dallas ranks 14,441 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,778 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 392 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
At the 54th national percentile, Dallas rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 61.7% of Dallas's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Dallas'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 indirect exposure implies beyond Dallas, see the exposure-zones guide.