Gibsonville, NC
Gibsonville, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Gibsonville at the 51st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 3,700 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Gibsonville at the 54th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Gibsonville's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Gibsonville: 49.4% of its 3,700 buildings, versus 47.5% Indirect and 3.1% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Gibsonville compares
Gibsonville scores 51st nationally and 41st 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, Gibsonville ranks 15,420 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,525 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 454 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Gibsonville and the insurance market
Gibsonville's elevated wildfire rating (51st percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
With 49.4% of Gibsonville 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gibsonville's 15,420-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Gibsonville, see the exposure-zones guide.