Mayodan, NC
How exposed is Mayodan to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mayodan at the 33rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,617 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mayodan at the 35th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Mayodan's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 61.6% of Mayodan's 1,617 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 38.4% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Mayodan against the rest of the country
Mayodan ranks lower within North Carolina (5th percentile statewide) than its 33rd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mayodan ranks 21,091 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,706 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 731 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mayodan
Mayodan's moderate wildfire rating (33rd 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 61.6% of Mayodan'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
Mayodan's 33rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Mayodan, see the exposure-zones guide.