Salvo, NC
Salvo wildfire risk explained
Salvo sits at the 89th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 772 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Salvo's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 80th percentile nationally.
Where Salvo's buildings actually sit
Only 12.4% of Salvo's 772 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 87.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Salvo ranks
There's little gap between Salvo's 89th national percentile and its 98th 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, Salvo ranks 3,505 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,902 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 20 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Salvo and the insurance market
At the 89th percentile nationally, Salvo carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Salvo
Salvo's 87.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Salvo's 89th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Salvo, see the exposure-zones guide.