Danville, VA
How exposed is Danville to wildfire?
Danville's 20,934 buildings earn a 31st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Danville at the 32nd percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
Danville's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Danville (42.2% of 20,934 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 36% sit in the Direct zone. At 20,934 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Danville compares
Danville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Virginia (20th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (31st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Danville ranks 21,921 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 668 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 544 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Danville
Danville's moderate rating (31st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Danville (42.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Danville's 21,921-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Danville, see the exposure-zones guide.