Stanfield, NC
How exposed is Stanfield to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Stanfield lands at the 40th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 959 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Stanfield's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 42nd percentile nationally.
Where Stanfield's buildings actually sit
Of Stanfield's 959 counted buildings, 86.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Stanfield ranks
Inside North Carolina, Stanfield sits at just the 14th percentile even though it scores 40th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Stanfield ranks 19,076 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,235 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 660 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Stanfield and the insurance market
Stanfield's moderate rating (40th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Stanfield (86.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Stanfield's 19,076-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Stanfield, see the exposure-zones guide.