Manassas, VA
How exposed is Manassas to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Manassas lands at the 21st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 11,206 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Manassas at the 21st percentile, close to its 21st-percentile risk score.
Manassas's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 13.1% of Manassas's 11,206 buildings carry Direct exposure and 18.1% carry Indirect; the remaining 68.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 11,206 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Manassas compares
Manassas scores 21st nationally and 12th 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, Manassas ranks 24,883 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,411 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 602 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Manassas
Manassas's moderate wildfire rating (21st percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Manassas
Manassas's 68.7% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 11,206 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Manassas. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Manassas, see the exposure-zones guide.