Jackson Springs, NC
How exposed is Jackson Springs to wildfire?
USFS scores Jackson Springs at the 81st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 126 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 Jackson Springs at the 82nd percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
126 buildings are counted in Jackson Springs, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Jackson Springs compares
There's little gap between Jackson Springs's 81st national percentile and its 87th 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, Jackson Springs ranks 6,023 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,907 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 102 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Jackson Springs
Jackson Springs's very high rating (81st 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Jackson Springs (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Jackson Springs's 6,023-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Jackson Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.