Fayetteville, NC
Fayetteville, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Fayetteville lands at the 82nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 79,640 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Fayetteville at the 81st percentile, close to its 82nd-percentile risk score.
Fayetteville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 40.5% of Fayetteville's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 29.7% Direct and 29.8% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 79,640 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Fayetteville compares
Fayetteville scores 82nd nationally and 88th within North Carolina — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fayetteville ranks 5,838 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 94 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 96 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Fayetteville and the insurance market
Fayetteville's very high rating (82nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
With 40.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Fayetteville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Fayetteville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fayetteville's 5,838-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fayetteville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.