Crimora, VA
Crimora, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Crimora at the 63rd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,181 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Crimora at the 63rd percentile, close to its 63rd-percentile risk score.
Crimora's building exposure, zone by zone
60% of Crimora's 1,181 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 708 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 40.1% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Crimora compares
Crimora's risk sits at a similar level relative to Virginia (72nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (63rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crimora ranks 11,614 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,764 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 189 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Crimora and the insurance market
Crimora's 63rd-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Crimora (60%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,181 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Crimora. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Crimora, see the exposure-zones guide.