Duffield, VA
Duffield, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Duffield's 96 buildings earn a 83rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Duffield at the 86th percentile, close to its 83rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Duffield's buildings (56.3%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Duffield ranks
Duffield's risk sits at a similar level relative to Virginia (94th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (83rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Duffield ranks 5,341 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,250 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 41 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Duffield and the insurance market
Duffield's 83rd-percentile, very 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Duffield's 56.3% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Duffield's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Duffield's 5,341-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Duffield's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.