Knightdale, NC
Knightdale, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Knightdale's 5,835 buildings earn a 36th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Knightdale at the 37th 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
Only 38.6% of Knightdale's 5,835 buildings carry Direct exposure and 21% carry Indirect; the remaining 40.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 5,835 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Knightdale ranks
Knightdale ranks lower within North Carolina (8th percentile statewide) than its 36th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Knightdale ranks 20,209 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,955 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 708 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Knightdale and the insurance market
At the 36th national percentile, Knightdale rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Knightdale's 40.4% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Knightdale's figures come from
Knightdale's 36th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Knightdale's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.