Hamlet, NC
How exposed is Hamlet to wildfire?
Hamlet's 3,242 buildings earn a 83rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hamlet's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 83rd percentile nationally.
Hamlet's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 57.9% of Hamlet's 3,242 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 34.5% Direct and 7.6% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Hamlet against the rest of the country
Hamlet scores 83rd nationally and 90th 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, Hamlet ranks 5,458 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,113 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 78 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hamlet
Hamlet's 83rd-percentile, very 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 Hamlet
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Hamlet (57.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hamlet's 5,458-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hamlet, see the exposure-zones guide.