Lake Ridge, VA
Lake Ridge, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Lake Ridge at the 26th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 7,814 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lake Ridge at the 26th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Lake Ridge's buildings actually sit
Of Lake Ridge's 7,814 counted buildings, 44.8% carry Direct exposure and only 16.3% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first. At 7,814 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Lake Ridge against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Lake Ridge's 26th national percentile and its 15th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lake Ridge ranks 23,464 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,176 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 576 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lake Ridge
Lake Ridge's moderate rating (26th 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
Lake Ridge's 44.8% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lake Ridge's 23,464-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Lake Ridge, see the exposure-zones guide.