Sea Breeze, NC
Sea Breeze, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Sea Breeze's 1,144 buildings earn a 66th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sea Breeze at the 59th percentile, close to its 66th-percentile risk score.
Sea Breeze's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 52.1% of Sea Breeze's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 38.4% Indirect share and far above its 9.5% Minimal share — a profile where 596 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Sea Breeze ranks
Sea Breeze's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Carolina (66th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (66th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sea Breeze ranks 10,878 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,999 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 267 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sea Breeze
At the 66th percentile nationally, Sea Breeze carries the 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 52.1% of Sea Breeze 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
Sea Breeze's 66th-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 Sea Breeze, see the exposure-zones guide.