Fieldale, VA
Fieldale wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Fieldale at the 31st national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 602 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Fieldale's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 32nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Fieldale's 602 counted buildings, 68.6% 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 Fieldale compares
There's little gap between Fieldale's 31st national percentile and its 21st percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fieldale ranks 21,826 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,818 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 541 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fieldale
Fieldale's moderate wildfire rating (31st 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.
Hardening a home in Fieldale
Because Direct exposure dominates in Fieldale (68.6%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Fieldale's 31st-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 Fieldale, see the exposure-zones guide.