Middletown, VA
How exposed is Middletown to wildfire?
USFS scores Middletown at the 56th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 582 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 Middletown at the 59th percentile, close to its 56th-percentile risk score.
Middletown's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Middletown's buildings (79.6%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Middletown compares
Middletown scores 56th nationally and 62nd within Virginia — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Middletown ranks 13,758 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,085 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 259 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Middletown
At the 56th national percentile, Middletown rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Middletown's 79.6% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Middletown's 56th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Middletown, see the exposure-zones guide.