Conicville, VA
How exposed is Conicville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Conicville lands at the 65th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 139 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Conicville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 66th percentile nationally.
Conicville's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Conicville: 92.1% of its 139 buildings, versus 7.9% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Conicville compares
Conicville scores 65th nationally and 77th 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, Conicville ranks 10,981 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,346 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 161 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Conicville and the insurance market
Conicville's 65th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Conicville's 92.1% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Conicville's 10,981-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Conicville, see the exposure-zones guide.