Jarratt, VA
Jarratt, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Jarratt lands at the 48th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 425 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Jarratt at the 49th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Jarratt's buildings actually sit
425 buildings are counted in Jarratt, and 86.6% 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.
Jarratt against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Jarratt's 48th national percentile and its 49th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jarratt ranks 16,437 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,754 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 345 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Jarratt
At the 48th national percentile, Jarratt rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Jarratt's 86.6% 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 Jarratt's 16,437-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Jarratt, see the exposure-zones guide.