Maury, NC
Maury, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Maury at the 45th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 391 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Maury at the 42nd percentile, close to its 45th-percentile risk score.
Maury's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Maury (50.4% of 391 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 49.6% sit in the Direct zone.
How Maury compares
Inside North Carolina, Maury sits at just the 24th percentile even though it scores 45th 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, Maury ranks 17,462 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,398 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 585 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Maury and the insurance market
Maury's elevated rating (45th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 50.4% of Maury's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 391 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Maury. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Maury, see the exposure-zones guide.