Roseboro, NC
How exposed is Roseboro to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Roseboro lands at the 64th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 887 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Roseboro's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 63rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
55.4% of Roseboro's 887 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 491 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 44.6% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Roseboro ranks
There's little gap between Roseboro's 64th national percentile and its 64th 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, Roseboro ranks 11,322 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,843 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 284 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Roseboro
Roseboro's 64th-percentile, 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.
Hardening a home in Roseboro
Roseboro's 55.4% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Roseboro's 11,322-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Roseboro, see the exposure-zones guide.