La Grange, NC
How exposed is La Grange to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts La Grange at the 39th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,708 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts La Grange at the 37th percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
La Grange's building exposure, zone by zone
45.8% of La Grange's 1,708 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 783 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 22.5% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 31.6% are Minimal.
La Grange against the rest of the country
Inside North Carolina, La Grange sits at just the 14th percentile even though it scores 39th 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, La Grange ranks 19,169 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,391 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 662 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
La Grange and the insurance market
At the 39th national percentile, La Grange 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
La Grange's 45.8% 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 La Grange's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,708 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for La Grange. The exposure-zones guide covers what La Grange's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.