Goldsboro, NC
Goldsboro wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Goldsboro at the 41st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 15,589 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 Goldsboro at the 41st percentile, close to its 41st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Goldsboro rates 51.8% Minimal exposure against just 35.7% Direct and 12.4% Indirect — of 15,589 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 15,589 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Goldsboro against the rest of the country
Inside North Carolina, Goldsboro sits at just the 17th percentile even though it scores 41st nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Goldsboro ranks 18,533 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 948 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 633 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Goldsboro and the insurance market
At the 41st national percentile, Goldsboro rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 51.8% of Goldsboro outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Goldsboro's 41st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Goldsboro, see the exposure-zones guide.