Wrightsville Beach, NC
How exposed is Wrightsville Beach to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Wrightsville Beach lands at the 52nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,656 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Wrightsville Beach's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 48th percentile nationally.
Wrightsville Beach's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Wrightsville Beach's buildings (99.5% of 1,656) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Wrightsville Beach against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Wrightsville Beach's 52nd national percentile and its 45th percentile inside North Carolina, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wrightsville Beach ranks 15,076 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,571 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Carolina alone, it ranks 430 of 772 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Carolina on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wrightsville Beach
Wrightsville Beach's elevated rating (52nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 99.5% of Wrightsville Beach outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wrightsville Beach's 15,076-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Wrightsville Beach, see the exposure-zones guide.