WildfireRiskFinder

Lee Mont, VA

Lee Mont, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers

High
66thpercentile nationally

Out of every US place USFS scores, Lee Mont lands at the 66th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 92 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)

Separately from the risk score above, Lee Mont's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 62nd percentile nationally.

Lee Mont's building exposure, zone by zone

92Total buildings
67.4%Direct exposure
32.6%Indirect exposure
0%Minimal exposure

USFS classifies 67.4% of Lee Mont's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 32.6% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 62 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.

Lee Mont against the rest of the country

There's little gap between Lee Mont's 66th national percentile and its 78th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lee Mont ranks 10,764 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,429 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 154 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.

Shopping for coverage in Lee Mont

Lee Mont's high rating (66th 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 Lee Mont

Lee Mont's 67.4% 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 Lee Mont's 10,764-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Lee Mont, see the exposure-zones guide.