Buncombe County, North Carolina parcel data
PropRaven serves 134,896 parcels for Buncombe County, NC at serving epoch 2026-08-28. That makes it number 8 of 100 counties in North Carolina by parcel count, holding 2.0% of the 6,579,105 parcels filed across North Carolina's counties (6,258,847 distinct statewide).
The county's Census population is 279,210, or 483.1 parcels per 1,000 residents. The USFS gazetteer counts 126,453 buildings in the county. Every figure on this page is read from the serving database's county coverage summary; percentages are rounded down to one decimal so nothing is overstated.
Buncombe County coverage
The share of 134,896 parcels carrying each field, with the North Carolina average (all 100 counties with data, weighted by record count) beside it.
| Field | Buncombe County | North Carolina average |
|---|---|---|
| Parcels | 134,896 | — |
| Situs address | 99.9% | 94.3% |
| Geocoded (usable coordinate) | 99.6% | 93.3% |
| Owner name | 99.8% | 96.5% |
| Assessed value above zero | 97.5% | 89.1% |
| Parcel polygon | 57.4% | 46.6% |
Situs address counts records with a non-empty street address; geocoded counts records with a non-zero coordinate; owner name counts records with a non-empty owner; assessed value counts records whose total assessed value is above zero; parcel polygon counts records with geometry attached. A county with many records but a low polygon share has coordinates and attributes, not boundaries. A field below 1% is one the county source does not publish.
What a Buncombe County parcel record contains
Every PropRaven parcel record shares one national schema. The families below are the ones the data dictionary documents; the coverage table above tells you how fully each is populated for Buncombe County, and a field that is empty for a county is empty because the county source does not publish it, not because it was dropped.
Owner and mailing address · Situs address · Assessed and market value · Sales and deed history · Building permits · Hazard and risk flags · Parcel geometry and land · Property characteristics
Freshness and risk context
Serving epoch: 2026-08-28 · coverage summary refreshed: 2026-09-05. PropRaven republishes on a weekly canonical cadence; the data overview shows the live national counters and the freshness endpoint reports the epoch being served.
Wildfire risk to homes: higher than 72% of North Carolina counties and 66% of U.S. counties (USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities percentile). The same risk vector — flood zone, National Risk Index ratings, storm history and seismic category — is attached to each parcel record in the hazard family above.
Get Buncombe County parcel data
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- County market statsMedian sale price, sales volume and flip activity for this county.
Largest other North Carolina counties
- Guilford County438,081 parcels
- Wake County437,807 parcels
- Mecklenburg County430,972 parcels
- Forsyth County337,347 parcels
- Avery County
- Brunswick County162,560 parcels
- Cumberland County144,320 parcels
- Durham County128,861 parcels
The 8 largest other counties in the coverage summary. All North Carolina counties · All states
Frequently asked questions
- How many parcels does PropRaven have for Buncombe County, NC?
- 134,896 parcels at serving epoch 2026-08-28. That makes it number 8 of 100 counties in North Carolina by parcel count, holding 2.0% of the 6,579,105 parcels filed across North Carolina's counties (6,258,847 distinct statewide). 99.9% of them carry a situs address, 99.6% a usable coordinate, 99.8% an owner name and 97.5% an assessed value above zero.
- How current is the Buncombe County, NC parcel data?
- The figures were measured at serving epoch 2026-08-28, and the county coverage summary was last refreshed on 2026-09-05. PropRaven republishes on a weekly canonical cadence, and the freshness endpoint at /api/v1/freshness reports exactly which epoch is being served at any moment.
- How do I download Buncombe County, NC parcel data?
- Browse it in the parcel search tool filtered to North Carolina; pull it through the REST API and the TypeScript, Python and Go SDKs (1,000 lookups a month free, no card required); query it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP-compatible agent through the MCP server; or take the full dataset as a Snowflake Marketplace share. Whole-state and national workloads are delivered as bulk parcel data.