East Spencer, NC
East Spencer, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores East Spencer at the 54th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 880 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks East Spencer at the 57th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 50.9% of East Spencer's 880 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 49.1% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where East Spencer ranks
East Spencer's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Carolina (50th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (54th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Spencer ranks 14,408 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,913 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 388 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
East Spencer and the insurance market
East Spencer's elevated rating (54th 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 East Spencer
Because 50.9% of East Spencer'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 880 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Spencer. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond East Spencer, see the exposure-zones guide.