Red Cross, NC
How exposed is Red Cross to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Red Cross lands at the 39th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 692 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Red Cross's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 42nd percentile nationally.
Red Cross's building exposure, zone by zone
92.9% of Red Cross's 692 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 643 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 7.1% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Red Cross against the rest of the country
Inside North Carolina, Red Cross sits at just the 14th percentile even though it scores 39th 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, Red Cross ranks 19,230 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,748 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 664 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Red Cross
Red Cross's moderate rating (39th 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
Red Cross's 92.9% 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
Red Cross's 39th-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 Red Cross, see the exposure-zones guide.