Weaverville, NC
How exposed is Weaverville to wildfire?
Weaverville's 2,261 buildings earn a 74th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Weaverville at the 77th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Weaverville: 61.4% of its 2,261 buildings, versus 38.6% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Weaverville against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Weaverville's 74th national percentile and its 76th 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, Weaverville ranks 8,132 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,791 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 187 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Weaverville's 74th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Weaverville's 61.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Weaverville's figures come from
Weaverville's 74th-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 Weaverville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.