Bunn, NC
Bunn wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Bunn lands at the 42nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 323 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Bunn's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 43rd percentile nationally.
Where Bunn's buildings actually sit
Most of Bunn's buildings (52.9%) 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.
How Bunn compares
Inside North Carolina, Bunn sits at just the 19th percentile even though it scores 42nd 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, Bunn ranks 18,378 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,015 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 624 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
Bunn's elevated rating (42nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Bunn
Bunn's 52.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bunn's 18,378-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Bunn, see the exposure-zones guide.