Chamberlayne, VA
Chamberlayne wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Chamberlayne lands at the 30th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 2,804 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Chamberlayne at the 31st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Chamberlayne's buildings (54.5%) 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.
How Chamberlayne compares
Chamberlayne's risk sits at a similar level relative to Virginia (20th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (30th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Chamberlayne ranks 21,949 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,759 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 545 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Chamberlayne
Chamberlayne's moderate rating (30th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Chamberlayne's 54.5% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Chamberlayne's 21,949-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Chamberlayne, see the exposure-zones guide.