Denton, NC
Denton wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Denton at the 38th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,086 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Denton at the 39th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Denton's building exposure, zone by zone
52.8% of Denton's 1,086 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 573 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 47.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Denton against the rest of the country
Denton's 38th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 11th ranking inside North Carolina does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 26 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Denton ranks 19,704 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,366 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 684 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Denton
At the 38th national percentile, Denton rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Denton
Denton's 52.8% 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 Denton's 19,704-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Denton, see the exposure-zones guide.