Dooms, VA
Dooms, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Dooms's 900 buildings earn a 68th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dooms's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 66th percentile nationally.
Where Dooms's buildings actually sit
900 buildings are counted in Dooms, and 71% 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 Dooms ranks
Dooms scores 68th nationally and 80th within Virginia — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dooms ranks 10,260 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,726 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 140 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dooms
Dooms'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 Dooms
Dooms's 71% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 900 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Dooms. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Dooms, see the exposure-zones guide.