Cherry Hill, VA
Cherry Hill, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Cherry Hill at the 31st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 3,201 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 Cherry Hill at the 29th percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
Cherry Hill's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Cherry Hill's buildings (64.6%) 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.
Cherry Hill against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Cherry Hill's 31st national percentile and its 20th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cherry Hill ranks 21,886 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,162 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 542 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cherry Hill
Cherry Hill's moderate wildfire rating (31st percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Cherry Hill's 64.6% 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
Cherry Hill's 31st-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 Cherry Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.