Glenvar, VA
How exposed is Glenvar to wildfire?
USFS scores Glenvar at the 65th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 449 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Glenvar at the 64th percentile, close to its 65th-percentile risk score.
Glenvar's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Glenvar's buildings (93.3%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Glenvar against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Glenvar's 65th national percentile and its 76th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glenvar ranks 10,982 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,308 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 162 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Glenvar
Glenvar's 65th-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.
Hardening a home in Glenvar
Glenvar's 93.3% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Glenvar's 65th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Glenvar, see the exposure-zones guide.