Lansdowne, VA
Lansdowne wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lansdowne at the 15th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 2,074 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lansdowne at the 15th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Lansdowne's buildings actually sit
43% of Lansdowne's 2,074 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 17.1% Direct and 40% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Lansdowne ranks
There's little gap between Lansdowne's 15th national percentile and its 6th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lansdowne ranks 26,741 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,275 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 641 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Lansdowne and the insurance market
Lansdowne's low rating (15th 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 Lansdowne
Lansdowne's 43% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lansdowne's 26,741-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lansdowne, see the exposure-zones guide.