Front Royal, VA
Front Royal, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Front Royal's 5,678 buildings earn a 56th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Front Royal at the 56th percentile, close to its 56th-percentile risk score.
Front Royal's building exposure, zone by zone
78.5% of Front Royal's 5,678 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 21.5% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 5,678 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Front Royal ranks
There's little gap between Front Royal's 56th national percentile and its 61st percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Front Royal ranks 14,010 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,044 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 268 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Front Royal and the insurance market
Front Royal's elevated rating (56th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Front Royal
Because 78.5% of Front Royal's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 5,678 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Front Royal. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Front Royal, see the exposure-zones guide.