Newport, NC
Newport, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Newport at the 87th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,814 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Newport at the 85th percentile, close to its 87th-percentile risk score.
Where Newport's buildings actually sit
1,814 buildings are counted in Newport, and 62.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 37.2% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Newport against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Newport's 87th national percentile and its 96th 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, Newport ranks 4,229 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,020 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 33 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Newport and the insurance market
Newport's 87th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 62.8% of Newport's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,814 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Newport. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Newport, see the exposure-zones guide.