Mooresboro, NC
Mooresboro, NC's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Mooresboro's 283 buildings earn a 65th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mooresboro at the 68th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Mooresboro's building exposure, zone by zone
283 buildings are counted in Mooresboro, and 96.5% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Mooresboro ranks
Mooresboro scores 65th nationally and 64th within North Carolina — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mooresboro ranks 11,196 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,098 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 278 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mooresboro
Mooresboro's 65th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Mooresboro's 96.5% 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 Mooresboro's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 283 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mooresboro. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mooresboro's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.