Aldie, VA
Aldie wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Aldie at the 34th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 100 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Aldie's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 33rd percentile nationally.
Aldie's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Aldie's 100 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Aldie ranks
There's little gap between Aldie's 34th national percentile and its 24th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Aldie ranks 20,815 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,059 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 521 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Aldie
Aldie's moderate rating (34th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Aldie (100%), 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
Aldie's 34th-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 Aldie, see the exposure-zones guide.