Cave Spring, VA
Cave Spring, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Cave Spring at the 62nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 9,236 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cave Spring at the 62nd percentile, close to its 62nd-percentile risk score.
Cave Spring's building exposure, zone by zone
Cave Spring rates 38.7% Minimal exposure against just 26.8% Direct and 34.5% Indirect — of 9,236 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 9,236 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Cave Spring ranks
There's little gap between Cave Spring's 62nd national percentile and its 69th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cave Spring ranks 12,020 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,784 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 209 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cave Spring
Cave Spring's high rating (62nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
With 38.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Cave Spring gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Cave Spring's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cave Spring's 12,020-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Cave Spring's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.