Greenville, VA
Greenville, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Greenville lands at the 70th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 489 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Greenville at the 71st percentile, close to its 70th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Greenville's 489 counted buildings, 82.2% 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.
Greenville against the rest of the country
Greenville scores 70th nationally and 83rd 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, Greenville ranks 9,409 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,558 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 116 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Greenville and the insurance market
Greenville's high rating (70th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Greenville (82.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Greenville's 9,409-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Greenville, see the exposure-zones guide.