Foxfire, NC
How exposed is Foxfire to wildfire?
USFS scores Foxfire at the 83rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 563 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 Foxfire at the 84th percentile, close to its 83rd-percentile risk score.
Foxfire's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 97.2% of Foxfire's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 2.8% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 547 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Foxfire against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Foxfire's 83rd national percentile and its 91st 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, Foxfire ranks 5,299 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,364 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 69 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Foxfire
Foxfire's very high rating (83rd 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 97.2% of Foxfire 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 563 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Foxfire. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Foxfire, see the exposure-zones guide.