Pinebluff, NC
Pinebluff wildfire risk explained
Pinebluff sits at the 86th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 833 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pinebluff at the 86th percentile, close to its 86th-percentile risk score.
Pinebluff's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Pinebluff's 833 counted buildings, 86.4% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Pinebluff against the rest of the country
Pinebluff's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Carolina (95th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (86th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pinebluff ranks 4,348 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,319 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 36 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pinebluff
Pinebluff's very high rating (86th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Pinebluff's 86.4% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pinebluff's 4,348-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pinebluff, see the exposure-zones guide.