Great Falls Crossing, VA
How exposed is Great Falls Crossing to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Great Falls Crossing at the 15th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 424 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Great Falls Crossing at the 14th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Great Falls Crossing's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 47.2% of Great Falls Crossing's 424 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0.5% carry Indirect; the remaining 52.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Great Falls Crossing against the rest of the country
Great Falls Crossing's risk sits at a similar level relative to Virginia (6th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (15th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Great Falls Crossing ranks 26,838 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,770 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 643 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Great Falls Crossing's low rating (15th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 52.4% of Great Falls Crossing outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Great Falls Crossing's 15th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Great Falls Crossing, see the exposure-zones guide.