Grantsboro, NC
Grantsboro wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Grantsboro lands at the 79th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 599 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Grantsboro at the 73rd national percentile — 6 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
599 buildings are counted in Grantsboro, and 93.3% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Grantsboro against the rest of the country
Grantsboro scores 79th nationally and 83rd 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, Grantsboro ranks 6,661 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,853 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 130 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Grantsboro's 79th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Grantsboro
With 93.3% of Grantsboro 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 Grantsboro's 6,661-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Grantsboro, see the exposure-zones guide.