Makemie Park, VA
How exposed is Makemie Park to wildfire?
USFS scores Makemie Park at the 63rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 114 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 Makemie Park at the 63rd percentile, close to its 63rd-percentile risk score.
Where Makemie Park's buildings actually sit
Of Makemie Park's 114 counted buildings, 90.4% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Makemie Park ranks
Makemie Park scores 63rd nationally and 72nd within Virginia — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Makemie Park ranks 11,616 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,483 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 191 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Makemie Park and the insurance market
Makemie Park's 63rd-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 90.4% of Makemie Park 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 114 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Makemie Park. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Makemie Park, see the exposure-zones guide.