Hope Mills, NC
How exposed is Hope Mills to wildfire?
Hope Mills's 6,575 buildings earn a 79th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hope Mills at the 79th percentile, close to its 79th-percentile risk score.
Where Hope Mills's buildings actually sit
59.2% of Hope Mills's 6,575 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 24.9% Direct and 15.9% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 6,575 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Hope Mills ranks
There's little gap between Hope Mills's 79th national percentile and its 84th 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, Hope Mills ranks 6,529 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,639 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 124 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hope Mills
Hope Mills's high rating (79th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Hope Mills (59.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Hope Mills's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hope Mills's 6,529-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Hope Mills's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.