Keezletown, VA
Keezletown, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Keezletown at the 70th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 264 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Keezletown at the 69th percentile, close to its 70th-percentile risk score.
Keezletown's building exposure, zone by zone
91.7% of Keezletown's 264 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 242 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 8.3% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Keezletown against the rest of the country
Keezletown scores 70th nationally and 82nd 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, Keezletown ranks 9,627 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,714 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 123 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Keezletown and the insurance market
Keezletown's 70th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 91.7% of Keezletown in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Keezletown's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 264 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Keezletown. The exposure-zones guide covers what Keezletown's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.