Forest Oaks, NC
Forest Oaks, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Forest Oaks sits at the 54th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,862 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Forest Oaks at the 58th percentile, close to its 54th-percentile risk score.
Forest Oaks's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Forest Oaks: 93.3% of its 1,862 buildings, versus 6.7% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Forest Oaks ranks
Forest Oaks scores 54th nationally and 50th 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, Forest Oaks ranks 14,380 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,878 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 385 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Forest Oaks
At the 54th national percentile, Forest Oaks rates elevated 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 Forest Oaks
Forest Oaks's 93.3% 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
Forest Oaks's 54th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Forest Oaks, see the exposure-zones guide.