Keokee, VA
How exposed is Keokee to wildfire?
Keokee sits at the 90th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 271 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Keokee at the 92nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Keokee's building exposure, zone by zone
78.2% of Keokee's 271 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 212 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 21.8% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Keokee against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Keokee's 90th national percentile and its 98th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Keokee ranks 3,037 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,489 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 13 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Keokee
Keokee's 90th-percentile, very 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.
Hardening a home in Keokee
Keokee's 78.2% 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.
Where Keokee's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Keokee's 3,037-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Keokee's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.