Long View, NC
How exposed is Long View to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Long View lands at the 37th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 2,671 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Long View at the 40th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Long View's buildings actually sit
42% of Long View's 2,671 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 25.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Long View against the rest of the country
Inside North Carolina, Long View sits at just the 10th percentile even though it scores 37th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Long View ranks 19,828 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,978 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 692 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Long View's moderate rating (37th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Long View
Even with 42% of Long View outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,671 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Long View. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Long View, see the exposure-zones guide.