Hillsboro, VA
Hillsboro wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hillsboro at the 51st national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 94 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hillsboro at the 50th percentile, close to its 51st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
94 buildings are counted in Hillsboro, and 97.9% 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.
Hillsboro against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Hillsboro's 51st national percentile and its 54th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hillsboro ranks 15,586 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,340 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 315 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hillsboro
Hillsboro's elevated rating (51st 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 Hillsboro
Because Direct exposure dominates in Hillsboro (97.9%), 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
Hillsboro's 51st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hillsboro, see the exposure-zones guide.