Kilmarnock, VA
How exposed is Kilmarnock to wildfire?
Kilmarnock sits at the 45th 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 1,024 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 Kilmarnock at the 45th percentile, close to its 45th-percentile risk score.
Kilmarnock's building exposure, zone by zone
1,024 buildings are counted in Kilmarnock, and 60.8% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Kilmarnock compares
Kilmarnock scores 45th nationally and 43rd 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, Kilmarnock ranks 17,414 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,772 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 386 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kilmarnock
Kilmarnock's elevated wildfire rating (45th 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.
Hardening a home in Kilmarnock
With 60.8% of Kilmarnock 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kilmarnock's 17,414-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Kilmarnock, see the exposure-zones guide.