Lakeside, VA
How exposed is Lakeside to wildfire?
USFS scores Lakeside at the 28th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 6,024 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lakeside's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 30th percentile nationally.
Lakeside's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Lakeside's buildings (77.8% of 6,024) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 6,024 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Lakeside against the rest of the country
Lakeside scores 28th nationally and 19th 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, Lakeside ranks 22,551 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,870 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 556 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lakeside
Lakeside's moderate rating (28th 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
With 77.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Lakeside gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Lakeside's figures come from
Lakeside's 28th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lakeside's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.