Sunbury, NC
How exposed is Sunbury to wildfire?
USFS scores Sunbury at the 47th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 294 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sunbury at the 47th percentile, close to its 47th-percentile risk score.
Sunbury's building exposure, zone by zone
60.5% of Sunbury's 294 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 178 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 39.5% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Sunbury against the rest of the country
Sunbury's 47th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 31st ranking inside North Carolina does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 16 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sunbury ranks 16,803 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,798 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 536 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sunbury
At the 47th national percentile, Sunbury rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Sunbury
Sunbury's 60.5% 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.
More on how this number was built
Sunbury's 47th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sunbury, see the exposure-zones guide.