Kenbridge, VA
Kenbridge, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Kenbridge sits at the 43rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 886 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kenbridge at the 44th percentile, close to its 43rd-percentile risk score.
Where Kenbridge's buildings actually sit
Most of Kenbridge's buildings (51.1%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Kenbridge compares
Kenbridge's risk sits at a similar level relative to Virginia (39th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (43rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kenbridge ranks 17,886 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,850 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 415 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Kenbridge and the insurance market
Kenbridge's elevated rating (43rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Kenbridge's 51.1% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kenbridge's 17,886-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kenbridge, see the exposure-zones guide.