Belview, VA
How exposed is Belview to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Belview lands at the 64th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 636 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Belview at the 64th percentile, close to its 64th-percentile risk score.
Where Belview's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Belview: 52.4% of its 636 buildings, versus 47.6% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Belview compares
Belview's risk sits at a similar level relative to Virginia (73rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (64th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Belview ranks 11,520 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,399 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 184 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Belview
Belview's 64th-percentile, 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Belview's 52.4% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Belview's 11,520-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Belview, see the exposure-zones guide.