Meadowview, VA
Meadowview, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Meadowview lands at the 70th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 789 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 Meadowview at the 75th percentile, close to its 70th-percentile risk score.
Meadowview's building exposure, zone by zone
789 buildings are counted in Meadowview, and 80.9% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Meadowview against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Meadowview's 70th national percentile and its 83rd percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Meadowview ranks 9,437 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,741 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 118 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
Meadowview's 70th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Meadowview
With 80.9% of Meadowview 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 Meadowview's 9,437-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Meadowview, see the exposure-zones guide.