Dahlgren Center, VA
Dahlgren Center, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Dahlgren Center's 479 buildings earn a 43rd-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 Dahlgren Center at the 41st percentile, close to its 43rd-percentile risk score.
Dahlgren Center's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Dahlgren Center (51.1% of 479 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 28.4% sit in the Direct zone.
Dahlgren Center against the rest of the country
Dahlgren Center scores 43rd nationally and 39th 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, Dahlgren Center ranks 17,916 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,736 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 416 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Dahlgren Center and the insurance market
Dahlgren Center's elevated rating (43rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Dahlgren Center
Dahlgren Center's 51.1% 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
Dahlgren Center's 43rd-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 Dahlgren Center, see the exposure-zones guide.