Kenansville, NC
Kenansville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Kenansville lands at the 55th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 571 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kenansville at the 55th percentile, close to its 55th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Kenansville: 78.1% of its 571 buildings, versus 21.9% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Kenansville ranks
Kenansville scores 55th nationally and 52nd within North Carolina — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kenansville ranks 14,158 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,236 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 376 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Kenansville's elevated wildfire rating (55th 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Kenansville (78.1%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kenansville's 14,158-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Kenansville, see the exposure-zones guide.