Robbinsville, NC
How exposed is Robbinsville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Robbinsville at the 83rd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 481 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Robbinsville at the 86th percentile, close to its 83rd-percentile risk score.
Robbinsville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 73% of Robbinsville's 481 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 27% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Robbinsville compares
Robbinsville's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Carolina (91st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (83rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Robbinsville ranks 5,366 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,689 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 75 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Robbinsville
Robbinsville's 83rd-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
Because 73% of Robbinsville'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
Robbinsville's 83rd-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 Robbinsville, see the exposure-zones guide.