Mulberry, NC
Mulberry wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Mulberry lands at the 51st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,477 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 Mulberry at the 53rd percentile, close to its 51st-percentile risk score.
Mulberry's building exposure, zone by zone
98.9% of Mulberry's 1,477 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 1,460 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 1.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Mulberry compares
Mulberry scores 51st nationally and 41st 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, Mulberry ranks 15,422 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,275 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 456 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mulberry
At the 51st national percentile, Mulberry rates elevated 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
With 98.9% of Mulberry 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 Mulberry's 15,422-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Mulberry, see the exposure-zones guide.