Rex, NC
Rex, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Rex lands at the 84th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 58 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rex at the 85th percentile, close to its 84th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Rex: 75.9% of its 58 buildings, versus 24.1% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Rex against the rest of the country
Rex scores 84th nationally and 93rd within North Carolina — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rex ranks 4,954 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,720 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 54 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
Rex's 84th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 75.9% of Rex 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
Rex's 84th-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 Rex, see the exposure-zones guide.