WildfireRiskFinder

Jolivue, VA

Jolivue, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers

Elevated
57thpercentile nationally

Jolivue's 573 buildings earn a 57th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)

Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Jolivue at the 58th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.

Jolivue's building exposure, zone by zone

573Total buildings
42.4%Direct exposure
57.6%Indirect exposure
0%Minimal exposure

57.6% of Jolivue's 573 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 42.4% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.

How Jolivue compares

Jolivue scores 57th nationally and 63rd 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, Jolivue ranks 13,693 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,203 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 255 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.

Shopping for coverage in Jolivue

At the 57th national percentile, Jolivue rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.

Hardening a home in Jolivue

With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Jolivue (57.6% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.

More on how this number was built

Every one of the two percentiles behind Jolivue's 13,693-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Jolivue, see the exposure-zones guide.