Greensboro, NC
Greensboro wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Greensboro at the 46th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 98,909 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 Greensboro at the 48th percentile, close to its 46th-percentile risk score.
Where Greensboro's buildings actually sit
Greensboro rates 51.9% Minimal exposure against just 31.7% Direct and 16.4% Indirect — of 98,909 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 98,909 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Greensboro compares
Greensboro's 46th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 28th ranking inside North Carolina does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 18 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Greensboro ranks 17,151 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 64 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 562 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
Greensboro's elevated rating (46th 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
Even with 51.9% of Greensboro 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Greensboro's 17,151-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Greensboro, see the exposure-zones guide.