Eureka, NC
How exposed is Eureka to wildfire?
Eureka's 191 buildings earn a 41st-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Eureka at the 38th percentile, close to its 41st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 50.3% of Eureka's 191 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 49.7% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Eureka ranks
Eureka's 41st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 17th ranking inside North Carolina does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 24 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Eureka ranks 18,757 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,214 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 645 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Eureka
Eureka's elevated wildfire rating (41st 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 Eureka
Eureka's 50.3% 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 Eureka's 18,757-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Eureka, see the exposure-zones guide.