Greenevers, NC
How exposed is Greenevers to wildfire?
USFS scores Greenevers at the 69th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 380 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Greenevers at the 68th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Greenevers's buildings actually sit
Of Greenevers's 380 counted buildings, 83.4% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Greenevers against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Greenevers's 69th national percentile and its 69th 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, Greenevers ranks 9,839 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,652 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 242 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Greenevers and the insurance market
Greenevers's 69th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 83.4% of Greenevers 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 380 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Greenevers. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Greenevers, see the exposure-zones guide.