Aurora, NC
Aurora, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Aurora at the 65th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 392 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Aurora's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 60th percentile nationally.
Where Aurora's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 52.6% of Aurora's 392 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 47.5% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Aurora compares
Aurora's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Carolina (64th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (65th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Aurora ranks 11,098 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,371 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 274 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Aurora
Aurora's 65th-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
Because 52.6% of Aurora's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Aurora's 11,098-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Aurora, see the exposure-zones guide.