Brambleton, VA
Brambleton wildfire risk explained
Brambleton sits at the 19th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 3,969 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brambleton at the 18th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
59.4% of Brambleton's 3,969 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 16.5% Direct and 24.1% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Brambleton compares
Brambleton scores 19th nationally and 10th 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, Brambleton ranks 25,672 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,277 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 615 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Brambleton and the insurance market
At the 19th national percentile, Brambleton rates low 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 59.4% of Brambleton's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Brambleton's 19th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Brambleton, see the exposure-zones guide.