Murraysville, NC
Murraysville wildfire risk explained
Murraysville sits at the 78th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 6,669 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Murraysville at the 74th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Murraysville's building exposure, zone by zone
6,669 buildings are counted in Murraysville, and 71.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 25% in Direct exposure or the 3.8% rated Minimal. At 6,669 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Murraysville against the rest of the country
Murraysville's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Carolina (80th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (78th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Murraysville ranks 7,003 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,598 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 154 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Murraysville
Murraysville's 78th-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.
Hardening a home in Murraysville
Murraysville's 71.2% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Murraysville's 78th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Murraysville, see the exposure-zones guide.