Meadowbrook, VA
Meadowbrook wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Meadowbrook at the 32nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 7,872 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 Meadowbrook at the 32nd percentile, close to its 32nd-percentile risk score.
Where Meadowbrook's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 55.6% of Meadowbrook's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 44.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 7,872 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Meadowbrook ranks
Meadowbrook's risk sits at a similar level relative to Virginia (22nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (32nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Meadowbrook ranks 21,508 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,155 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 534 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Meadowbrook's moderate rating (32nd 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 Meadowbrook
With 55.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Meadowbrook gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Meadowbrook's 21,508-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Meadowbrook, see the exposure-zones guide.