Fairfax Station, VA
How exposed is Fairfax Station to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Fairfax Station at the 28th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 4,002 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fairfax Station at the 29th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Fairfax Station: 72.4% of its 4,002 buildings, versus 4.3% Indirect and 23.3% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Fairfax Station ranks
Fairfax Station scores 28th nationally and 18th 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, Fairfax Station ranks 22,581 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,243 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 558 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fairfax Station
Fairfax Station's moderate wildfire rating (28th 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
With 72.4% of Fairfax Station in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fairfax Station's 22,581-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Fairfax Station, see the exposure-zones guide.