Danville, VT
How exposed is Danville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Danville lands at the 16th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 247 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Danville at the 16th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Danville's building exposure, zone by zone
247 buildings are counted in Danville, and 69.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Danville ranks
Within Vermont, Danville ranks higher (57th percentile) than it does nationally (16th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Danville ranks 26,487 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,252 by building count (1 is largest). Within Vermont alone, it ranks 78 of 179 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Vermont on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Danville's low rating (16th 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
Danville's 69.2% 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
Danville's 16th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Danville, see the exposure-zones guide.