Sandyfield, NC
Sandyfield, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Sandyfield sits at the 79th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 311 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sandyfield at the 79th percentile, close to its 79th-percentile risk score.
Sandyfield's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 99.4% of Sandyfield's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0.6% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 309 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Sandyfield ranks
Sandyfield's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Carolina (83rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (79th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sandyfield ranks 6,662 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,348 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 131 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Sandyfield and the insurance market
Sandyfield's 79th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Sandyfield's 99.4% 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.
Where Sandyfield's figures come from
Sandyfield's 79th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sandyfield's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.