Goochland, VA
Goochland wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Goochland at the 37th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 593 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Goochland's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 39th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Goochland's 593 counted buildings, 87% 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 Goochland compares
Goochland scores 37th nationally and 28th within Virginia — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Goochland ranks 19,839 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,932 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 493 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Goochland and the insurance market
Goochland's moderate rating (37th 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 Goochland
Goochland's 87% 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 Goochland's 19,839-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Goochland, see the exposure-zones guide.