Iron Station, NC
Iron Station, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Iron Station sits at the 58th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 617 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Iron Station's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 61st percentile nationally.
Iron Station's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 92.2% of Iron Station's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 7.8% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 569 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Iron Station compares
There's little gap between Iron Station's 58th national percentile and its 56th 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, Iron Station ranks 13,369 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,611 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 341 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Iron Station and the insurance market
Iron Station's elevated wildfire rating (58th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Iron Station
With 92.2% of Iron Station 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
Iron Station's 58th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Iron Station, see the exposure-zones guide.