Garysburg, NC
Garysburg, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Garysburg's 619 buildings earn a 47th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Garysburg at the 47th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Garysburg's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 71.2% of Garysburg's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 28.8% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 441 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Garysburg ranks
Garysburg's 47th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 31st ranking inside North Carolina does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 16 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Garysburg ranks 16,768 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,575 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 533 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Garysburg and the insurance market
At the 47th national percentile, Garysburg 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
With 71.2% of Garysburg in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Garysburg's 16,768-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Garysburg, see the exposure-zones guide.