Dunn, NC
Dunn wildfire risk explained
Dunn's 5,034 buildings earn a 48th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dunn's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 48th percentile nationally.
Where Dunn's buildings actually sit
Only 22.7% of Dunn's 5,034 buildings carry Direct exposure and 36.8% carry Indirect; the remaining 40.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 5,034 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Dunn ranks
There's little gap between Dunn's 48th national percentile and its 33rd percentile inside North Carolina, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dunn ranks 16,427 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,410 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 516 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Dunn and the insurance market
At the 48th national percentile, Dunn rates elevated 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
Even with 40.5% of Dunn outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 5,034 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Dunn. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Dunn, see the exposure-zones guide.