Honaker, VA
Honaker, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Honaker at the 86th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 864 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Honaker at the 89th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Honaker's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 58% of Honaker's 864 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 42% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Honaker against the rest of the country
Honaker scores 86th nationally and 95th 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, Honaker ranks 4,522 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,043 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 32 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Honaker
Honaker's very high rating (86th 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 58% of Honaker's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Honaker's figures come from
Honaker's 86th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Honaker's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.