Mint Hill, NC
Mint Hill wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mint Hill at the 49th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 12,167 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mint Hill's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 53rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Mint Hill's 12,167 counted buildings, 85.6% carry Direct exposure and only 3.3% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first. At 12,167 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Mint Hill compares
Mint Hill's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Carolina (36th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (49th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mint Hill ranks 16,012 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,277 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 499 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Mint Hill and the insurance market
Mint Hill's elevated rating (49th 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 Mint Hill
Mint Hill's 85.6% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Mint Hill's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mint Hill's 16,012-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mint Hill's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.