Parkton, NC
How exposed is Parkton to wildfire?
Parkton's 368 buildings earn a 80th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Parkton's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 81st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
53.3% of Parkton's 368 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 46.7% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Parkton ranks
There's little gap between Parkton's 80th national percentile and its 86th 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, Parkton ranks 6,246 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,910 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 111 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Parkton and the insurance market
Parkton's 80th-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.
Hardening a home in Parkton
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Parkton (53.3% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 368 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Parkton. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Parkton, see the exposure-zones guide.