Glen Allen, VA
How exposed is Glen Allen to wildfire?
Glen Allen's 6,315 buildings earn a 34th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Glen Allen at the 35th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Glen Allen's building exposure, zone by zone
47.8% of Glen Allen's 6,315 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 3,019 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 26.3% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 25.9% are Minimal. At 6,315 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Glen Allen compares
There's little gap between Glen Allen's 34th national percentile and its 24th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glen Allen ranks 20,692 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,745 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 519 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Glen Allen
Glen Allen's moderate rating (34th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Glen Allen's 47.8% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Glen Allen's 20,692-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Glen Allen, see the exposure-zones guide.