Boonville, NC
How exposed is Boonville to wildfire?
USFS scores Boonville at the 35th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 717 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Boonville at the 38th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Boonville's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Boonville: 76.3% of its 717 buildings, versus 23.7% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Boonville against the rest of the country
Boonville's 35th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 7th ranking inside North Carolina does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 28 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Boonville ranks 20,489 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,497 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 715 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
Boonville's moderate rating (35th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 76.3% of Boonville in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Boonville's 20,489-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Boonville, see the exposure-zones guide.