Red Springs, NC
Red Springs wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Red Springs at the 81st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,829 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Red Springs at the 81st national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Red Springs's building exposure, zone by zone
1,829 buildings are counted in Red Springs, and 56.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 43.8% in Direct exposure or the 0.1% rated Minimal.
Red Springs against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Red Springs's 81st national percentile and its 87th 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, Red Springs ranks 6,024 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,986 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 103 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
Red Springs's very high rating (81st percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Red Springs
Because 56.1% of Red Springs'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
Red Springs's 81st-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 Red Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.