Gordonsville, TN
Gordonsville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Gordonsville at the 30th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 865 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 Gordonsville at the 33rd percentile, close to its 30th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
865 buildings are counted in Gordonsville, and 81.2% 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.
Gordonsville against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Gordonsville's 30th national percentile and its 18th percentile inside Tennessee, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gordonsville ranks 22,080 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,032 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 412 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Gordonsville and the insurance market
At the 30th national percentile, Gordonsville rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Gordonsville's 81.2% 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 Gordonsville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gordonsville's 22,080-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Gordonsville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.