Deep Run, NC
How exposed is Deep Run to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Deep Run at the 44th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 448 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Deep Run at the 43rd percentile, close to its 44th-percentile risk score.
Where Deep Run's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Deep Run: 69.9% of its 448 buildings, versus 30.1% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Deep Run against the rest of the country
Inside North Carolina, Deep Run sits at just the 23rd percentile even though it scores 44th 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, Deep Run ranks 17,656 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,317 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 595 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
Deep Run's elevated wildfire rating (44th 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 Deep Run
Deep Run's 69.9% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 448 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Deep Run. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Deep Run, see the exposure-zones guide.