Tarboro, NC
Tarboro, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Tarboro at the 47th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 5,232 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tarboro at the 46th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Tarboro's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Tarboro (47.4% of 5,232 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 42.7% sit in the Direct zone. At 5,232 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Tarboro ranks
Inside North Carolina, Tarboro sits at just the 31st percentile even though it scores 47th 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, Tarboro ranks 16,837 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,296 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 537 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Tarboro and the insurance market
At the 47th national percentile, Tarboro rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 47.4% of Tarboro's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Tarboro's figures come from
Tarboro's 47th-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 Tarboro's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.