Chase Crossing, VA
How exposed is Chase Crossing to wildfire?
Chase Crossing's 174 buildings earn a 47th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Chase Crossing at the 46th percentile, close to its 47th-percentile risk score.
Chase Crossing's building exposure, zone by zone
70.1% of Chase Crossing's 174 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 122 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 29.9% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Chase Crossing ranks
There's little gap between Chase Crossing's 47th national percentile and its 47th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Chase Crossing ranks 16,813 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,873 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 364 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Chase Crossing
At the 47th national percentile, Chase Crossing rates elevated 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
With 70.1% of Chase Crossing in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Chase Crossing's 16,813-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Chase Crossing, see the exposure-zones guide.