Abbs Valley, VA
How exposed is Abbs Valley to wildfire?
Abbs Valley's 305 buildings earn a 81st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Abbs Valley's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 84th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 60.3% of Abbs Valley's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 39.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 184 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Abbs Valley compares
There's little gap between Abbs Valley's 81st national percentile and its 93rd percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Abbs Valley ranks 5,942 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,517 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 51 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Abbs Valley and the insurance market
Abbs Valley's 81st-percentile, very 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 Abbs Valley
Because Direct exposure dominates in Abbs Valley (60.3%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 305 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Abbs Valley. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Abbs Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.