Blackstone, VA
Blackstone, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Blackstone lands at the 41st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,780 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Blackstone at the 42nd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Blackstone's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Blackstone's buildings (59.9%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Blackstone against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Blackstone's 41st national percentile and its 34th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blackstone ranks 18,706 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,123 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 449 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Blackstone and the insurance market
Blackstone's elevated wildfire rating (41st percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Blackstone's 59.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,780 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Blackstone. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Blackstone, see the exposure-zones guide.