Lebanon, VA
How exposed is Lebanon to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lebanon at the 82nd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,968 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lebanon at the 85th percentile, close to its 82nd-percentile risk score.
Where Lebanon's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 69.7% of Lebanon's 1,968 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 30.3% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Lebanon ranks
Lebanon's risk sits at a similar level relative to Virginia (93rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (82nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lebanon ranks 5,720 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,567 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 48 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lebanon
Lebanon's very high rating (82nd 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.
Hardening a home in Lebanon
Lebanon's 69.7% 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.
Where Lebanon's figures come from
Lebanon's 82nd-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 Lebanon's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.