Gwynn, VA
Gwynn wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Gwynn at the 49th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,060 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Gwynn's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 48th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
70.2% of Gwynn's 1,060 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 744 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 29.8% are Minimal.
Gwynn against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Gwynn's 49th national percentile and its 52nd percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gwynn ranks 16,027 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,528 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 331 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Gwynn
At the 49th national percentile, Gwynn rates elevated 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
Gwynn's 70.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gwynn's 16,027-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Gwynn, see the exposure-zones guide.