Massanutten, VA
Massanutten wildfire risk explained
Massanutten's 1,720 buildings earn a 72nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Massanutten's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 69th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Massanutten: 83.7% of its 1,720 buildings, versus 16.3% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Massanutten ranks
There's little gap between Massanutten's 72nd national percentile and its 85th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Massanutten ranks 8,996 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,345 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 105 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Massanutten and the insurance market
Massanutten's high rating (72nd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Massanutten (83.7%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Massanutten's 72nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Massanutten, see the exposure-zones guide.