Pinnacle, NC
Pinnacle, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Pinnacle's 683 buildings earn a 37th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pinnacle at the 39th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Pinnacle: 97.5% of its 683 buildings, versus 2.5% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Pinnacle against the rest of the country
Inside North Carolina, Pinnacle sits at just the 11th percentile even though it scores 37th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pinnacle ranks 19,766 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,831 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 688 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Pinnacle and the insurance market
At the 37th national percentile, Pinnacle rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Pinnacle
With 97.5% of Pinnacle 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.
More on how this number was built
Pinnacle's 37th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pinnacle, see the exposure-zones guide.