Piney Green, NC
How exposed is Piney Green to wildfire?
Piney Green sits at the 80th 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 6,248 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 Piney Green at the 78th percentile, close to its 80th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
6,248 buildings are counted in Piney Green, and 56.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal. At 6,248 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Piney Green compares
Piney Green's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Carolina (86th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (80th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Piney Green ranks 6,213 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,775 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 110 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
At the 80th percentile nationally, Piney Green carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 56.6% of Piney Green in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Piney Green's figures come from
Piney Green's 80th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Piney Green's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.