Misenheimer, NC
Misenheimer wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Misenheimer at the 36th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 185 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 Misenheimer at the 38th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
Where Misenheimer's buildings actually sit
Of Misenheimer's 185 counted buildings, 90.3% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Misenheimer ranks
Misenheimer's 36th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 8th ranking inside North Carolina does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 28 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Misenheimer ranks 20,238 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,428 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 710 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Misenheimer and the insurance market
Misenheimer's moderate rating (36th 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
Misenheimer's 90.3% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Misenheimer's 20,238-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Misenheimer, see the exposure-zones guide.