Mountain View, NC
How exposed is Mountain View to wildfire?
Mountain View sits at the 38th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,820 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mountain View's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 40th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,820 buildings are counted in Mountain View, and 73.2% 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.
How Mountain View compares
Inside North Carolina, Mountain View sits at just the 12th percentile even though it scores 38th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mountain View ranks 19,669 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,005 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 683 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Mountain View and the insurance market
At the 38th national percentile, Mountain View rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Mountain View's 73.2% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,820 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mountain View. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Mountain View, see the exposure-zones guide.