Chantilly, VA
How exposed is Chantilly to wildfire?
Chantilly's 6,119 buildings earn a 14th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Chantilly at the 14th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Chantilly's buildings actually sit
Only 21.2% of Chantilly's 6,119 buildings carry Direct exposure and 15.8% carry Indirect; the remaining 63% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 6,119 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Chantilly ranks
Chantilly scores 14th nationally and 5th 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, Chantilly ranks 27,089 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,833 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 649 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Chantilly's low rating (14th 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
With 63% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Chantilly gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Chantilly's 14th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Chantilly, see the exposure-zones guide.