Mount Pleasant, NC
How exposed is Mount Pleasant to wildfire?
Mount Pleasant's 922 buildings earn a 51st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mount Pleasant at the 54th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Mount Pleasant's buildings actually sit
Of Mount Pleasant's 922 counted buildings, 63.1% 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.
Mount Pleasant against the rest of the country
Mount Pleasant's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Carolina (41st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (51st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Pleasant ranks 15,477 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,540 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 460 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Mount Pleasant and the insurance market
Mount Pleasant's elevated wildfire rating (51st 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 63.1% of Mount Pleasant 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 922 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mount Pleasant. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Mount Pleasant, see the exposure-zones guide.