McLean, VA
McLean, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
McLean sits at the 16th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 18,077 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks McLean at the 15th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where McLean's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in McLean: 57% of its 18,077 buildings, versus 2.1% Indirect and 40.9% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap. At 18,077 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where McLean ranks
There's little gap between McLean's 16th national percentile and its 7th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, McLean ranks 26,456 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 792 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 636 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
McLean and the insurance market
McLean's low rating (16th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in McLean
With 57% of McLean 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
McLean's 16th-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 McLean, see the exposure-zones guide.