Weddington, NC
How exposed is Weddington to wildfire?
Weddington sits at the 40th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 5,470 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Weddington at the 44th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Weddington's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Weddington: 93% of its 5,470 buildings, versus 5.9% Indirect and 1.1% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap. At 5,470 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Weddington against the rest of the country
Weddington's 40th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 16th ranking inside North Carolina does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 24 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Weddington ranks 18,818 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,154 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 649 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
Weddington's elevated wildfire rating (40th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Weddington
Weddington's 93% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Weddington's 18,818-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Weddington, see the exposure-zones guide.