Daleville, VA
Daleville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Daleville lands at the 68th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,214 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Daleville at the 68th percentile, close to its 68th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Daleville (50.2% of 1,214 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 49.8% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Daleville ranks
There's little gap between Daleville's 68th national percentile and its 80th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Daleville ranks 10,196 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,574 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 137 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Daleville and the insurance market
Daleville's 68th-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.
Hardening a home in Daleville
Daleville's 50.2% 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.
Where Daleville's figures come from
Daleville's 68th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Daleville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.