Dinwiddie, VA
How exposed is Dinwiddie to wildfire?
Dinwiddie's 595 buildings earn a 48th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dinwiddie's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 49th percentile nationally.
Where Dinwiddie's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Dinwiddie: 93.3% of its 595 buildings, versus 6.7% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Dinwiddie compares
Dinwiddie's risk sits at a similar level relative to Virginia (49th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (48th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dinwiddie ranks 16,499 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,901 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 349 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Dinwiddie and the insurance market
At the 48th national percentile, Dinwiddie rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Dinwiddie's 93.3% 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
Dinwiddie's 48th-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 Dinwiddie, see the exposure-zones guide.