Glen Wilton, VA
Glen Wilton wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Glen Wilton at the 76th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 111 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Glen Wilton's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 75th percentile nationally.
Where Glen Wilton's buildings actually sit
111 buildings are counted in Glen Wilton, and 99.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Glen Wilton against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Glen Wilton's 76th national percentile and its 90th 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 Wilton ranks 7,518 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,611 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 69 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Glen Wilton and the insurance market
Glen Wilton's 76th-percentile, 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Glen Wilton's 99.1% 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.
Where Glen Wilton's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 111 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Glen Wilton. The exposure-zones guide covers what Glen Wilton's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.