Eden, NC
Eden wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Eden at the 33rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 8,325 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 Eden at the 35th percentile, close to its 33rd-percentile risk score.
Where Eden's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Eden: 47.5% of its 8,325 buildings, versus 47.5% Indirect and 5.1% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap. At 8,325 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Eden ranks
Inside North Carolina, Eden sits at just the 5th percentile even though it scores 33rd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Eden ranks 20,994 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,001 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 730 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
Eden's moderate rating (33rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 47.5% of Eden in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 8,325 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Eden. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Eden, see the exposure-zones guide.