Keysville, VA
How exposed is Keysville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Keysville at the 39th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 479 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Keysville at the 40th percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
Keysville's building exposure, zone by zone
479 buildings are counted in Keysville, and 55.3% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 44.7% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Keysville compares
There's little gap between Keysville's 39th national percentile and its 31st percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Keysville ranks 19,149 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,737 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 471 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Keysville
Keysville's moderate wildfire rating (39th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Keysville's 55.3% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 479 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Keysville. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Keysville, see the exposure-zones guide.