Kincora, VA
Kincora wildfire risk explained
Kincora's 7 buildings earn a 11th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kincora at the 11th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
Kincora's building exposure, zone by zone
7 buildings are counted in Kincora, and 42.9% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 42.9% rated Minimal. This is a small settlement by building count — 7 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
How Kincora compares
There's little gap between Kincora's 11th national percentile and its 2nd percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kincora ranks 28,128 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,516 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 666 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Kincora and the insurance market
Kincora's low rating (11th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Kincora
Because Direct exposure dominates in Kincora (42.9%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kincora's 28,128-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. At 7 buildings, Kincora is close to the size where USFS's data gets thin — the data-quality guide explains why 517 places nationally get no score at all.