Millers Creek, NC
Millers Creek wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Millers Creek lands at the 50th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,415 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 Millers Creek at the 53rd percentile, close to its 50th-percentile risk score.
Millers Creek's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 94.9% of Millers Creek's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 5.1% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 1,343 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Millers Creek compares
There's little gap between Millers Creek's 50th national percentile and its 39th percentile inside North Carolina, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Millers Creek ranks 15,640 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,563 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 472 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Millers Creek
At the 50th national percentile, Millers Creek rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 94.9% of Millers Creek in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Millers Creek's 15,640-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Millers Creek, see the exposure-zones guide.