Hallsboro, NC
Hallsboro, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Hallsboro's 428 buildings earn a 72nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hallsboro's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 71st percentile nationally.
Hallsboro's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Hallsboro's 428 counted buildings, 88.3% 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.
Where Hallsboro ranks
Hallsboro scores 72nd nationally and 73rd 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, Hallsboro ranks 8,891 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,696 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 213 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hallsboro
Hallsboro's 72nd-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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Hallsboro (88.3%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Hallsboro's figures come from
Hallsboro's 72nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Hallsboro's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.