Leesburg, VA
How exposed is Leesburg to wildfire?
USFS scores Leesburg at the 20th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 9,783 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Leesburg at the 19th percentile, close to its 20th-percentile risk score.
Where Leesburg's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Leesburg (75.7% of 9,783 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 19.3% sit in the Direct zone. At 9,783 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Leesburg compares
Leesburg's risk sits at a similar level relative to Virginia (11th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (20th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Leesburg ranks 25,167 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,668 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 608 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Leesburg and the insurance market
At the 20th national percentile, Leesburg rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Leesburg
Leesburg's 75.7% 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 Leesburg's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Leesburg's 25,167-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Leesburg's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.