Dillwyn, VA
Dillwyn, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Dillwyn at the 45th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 306 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Dillwyn at the 46th percentile, close to its 45th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Dillwyn's 306 counted buildings, 57.8% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Dillwyn compares
There's little gap between Dillwyn's 45th national percentile and its 43rd percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dillwyn ranks 17,442 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,488 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 387 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dillwyn
Dillwyn's elevated wildfire rating (45th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Dillwyn (57.8%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Dillwyn's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Dillwyn's 17,442-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Dillwyn's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.