Boydton, VA
Boydton wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Boydton at the 36th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 303 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Boydton at the 37th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Boydton's buildings actually sit
Of Boydton's 303 counted buildings, 72.9% 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.
Boydton against the rest of the country
Boydton scores 36th nationally and 26th within Virginia — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Boydton ranks 20,152 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,557 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 504 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Boydton
At the 36th national percentile, Boydton rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Boydton (72.9%), 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
Boydton's 36th-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 Boydton, see the exposure-zones guide.