Marshall, VA
How exposed is Marshall to wildfire?
Marshall's 753 buildings earn a 35th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Marshall at the 34th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Marshall's buildings actually sit
Of Marshall's 753 counted buildings, 66% 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.
Marshall against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Marshall's 35th national percentile and its 24th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Marshall ranks 20,629 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,094 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 517 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Marshall and the insurance market
Marshall's moderate rating (35th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 66% of Marshall 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Marshall's 20,629-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Marshall, see the exposure-zones guide.