Greenville, NC
How exposed is Greenville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Greenville at the 42nd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 23,209 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Greenville at the 41st national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Greenville's building exposure, zone by zone
Greenville rates 46% Minimal exposure against just 31.5% Direct and 22.6% Indirect — of 23,209 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 23,209 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Greenville against the rest of the country
Greenville's 42nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 19th ranking inside North Carolina does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 23 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Greenville ranks 18,379 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 566 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 625 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Greenville and the insurance market
Greenville's elevated wildfire rating (42nd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 46% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Greenville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Greenville's 42nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Greenville, see the exposure-zones guide.