Pink Hill, NC
Pink Hill wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pink Hill at the 48th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 340 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 Pink Hill at the 47th percentile, close to its 48th-percentile risk score.
Where Pink Hill's buildings actually sit
62.7% of Pink Hill's 340 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 37.4% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Pink Hill ranks
Pink Hill's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Carolina (33rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (48th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pink Hill ranks 16,522 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,581 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 521 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pink Hill
Pink Hill's elevated rating (48th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Pink Hill (62.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Pink Hill's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pink Hill's 16,522-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pink Hill's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.