Wakulla, NC
How exposed is Wakulla to wildfire?
Wakulla 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 86 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Wakulla's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 80th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Wakulla's 86 counted buildings, 76.7% 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 Wakulla ranks
There's little gap between Wakulla's 79th national percentile and its 81st 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, Wakulla ranks 6,783 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,660 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 145 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Wakulla and the insurance market
Wakulla's high rating (79th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 76.7% of Wakulla 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wakulla's 6,783-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Wakulla, see the exposure-zones guide.