Glen Alpine, NC
Glen Alpine, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Glen Alpine's 910 buildings earn a 57th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Glen Alpine at the 59th percentile, close to its 57th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
87.7% of Glen Alpine's 910 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 798 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 12.3% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Glen Alpine ranks
Glen Alpine scores 57th nationally and 55th 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, Glen Alpine ranks 13,556 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,641 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 349 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Glen Alpine and the insurance market
Glen Alpine's elevated rating (57th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 87.7% of Glen Alpine 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 910 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Glen Alpine. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Glen Alpine, see the exposure-zones guide.