East Rockingham, NC
East Rockingham, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
East Rockingham's 2,024 buildings earn a 79th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts East Rockingham at the 80th percentile, close to its 79th-percentile risk score.
East Rockingham's building exposure, zone by zone
East Rockingham rates 46.4% Minimal exposure against just 44.3% Direct and 9.3% Indirect — of 2,024 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How East Rockingham compares
There's little gap between East Rockingham's 79th national percentile and its 83rd 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, East Rockingham ranks 6,691 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,402 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 133 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
East Rockingham and the insurance market
At the 79th percentile nationally, East Rockingham carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 46.4% of East Rockingham outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
East Rockingham's 79th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond East Rockingham, see the exposure-zones guide.