Fearrington Village, NC
How exposed is Fearrington Village to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Fearrington Village lands at the 37th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,190 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fearrington Village at the 39th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Fearrington Village: 69.1% of its 1,190 buildings, versus 30.9% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Fearrington Village compares
Inside North Carolina, Fearrington Village sits at just the 10th percentile even though it scores 37th 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, Fearrington Village ranks 19,861 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,708 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 694 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fearrington Village
Fearrington Village's moderate wildfire rating (37th 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 Fearrington Village
Fearrington Village's 69.1% 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.
Where Fearrington Village's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fearrington Village's 19,861-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fearrington Village's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.