Kings Mountain, NC
Kings Mountain, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Kings Mountain at the 58th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 5,353 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 Kings Mountain at the 61st percentile, close to its 58th-percentile risk score.
Where Kings Mountain's buildings actually sit
5,353 buildings are counted in Kings Mountain, and 49.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 46.1% in Direct exposure or the 4.5% rated Minimal. At 5,353 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Kings Mountain against the rest of the country
Kings Mountain scores 58th nationally and 56th 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, Kings Mountain ranks 13,274 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,220 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 339 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Kings Mountain and the insurance market
Kings Mountain's elevated rating (58th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Kings Mountain's 49.4% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kings Mountain's 13,274-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kings Mountain, see the exposure-zones guide.