Laymantown, VA
How exposed is Laymantown to wildfire?
USFS scores Laymantown at the 67th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 950 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Laymantown at the 66th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Laymantown: 78% of its 950 buildings, versus 22% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Laymantown against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Laymantown's 67th national percentile and its 79th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Laymantown ranks 10,320 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,313 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 141 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Laymantown and the insurance market
Laymantown's high rating (67th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
With 78% of Laymantown 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
Laymantown's 67th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Laymantown, see the exposure-zones guide.