Pollocksville, NC
How exposed is Pollocksville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pollocksville at the 59th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 266 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pollocksville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 58th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 54.5% of Pollocksville's 266 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 45.5% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Pollocksville ranks
There's little gap between Pollocksville's 59th national percentile and its 58th 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, Pollocksville ranks 12,864 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,644 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 325 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
Pollocksville's elevated rating (59th 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
Because 54.5% of Pollocksville's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Pollocksville's 59th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pollocksville, see the exposure-zones guide.