Wallburg, NC
Wallburg, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Wallburg at the 52nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,871 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wallburg at the 55th percentile, close to its 52nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Wallburg's 1,871 counted buildings, 90.7% 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.
How Wallburg compares
Wallburg's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Carolina (43rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (52nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wallburg ranks 15,199 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,845 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 438 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Wallburg and the insurance market
At the 52nd national percentile, Wallburg rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Wallburg
Because Direct exposure dominates in Wallburg (90.7%), 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
Wallburg's 52nd-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 Wallburg, see the exposure-zones guide.