Winterville, NC
Winterville, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Winterville lands at the 37th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 4,428 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Winterville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 35th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Winterville's buildings (35.1%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Winterville against the rest of the country
Inside North Carolina, Winterville sits at just the 11th percentile even though it scores 37th 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, Winterville ranks 19,798 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,853 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 690 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Winterville
At the 37th national percentile, Winterville rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Winterville (35.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,428 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Winterville. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Winterville, see the exposure-zones guide.