Montclair, VA
Montclair wildfire risk explained
Montclair's 5,838 buildings earn a 23rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Montclair at the 23rd percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
Montclair's building exposure, zone by zone
5,838 buildings are counted in Montclair, and 39% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 26.9% rated Minimal. At 5,838 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Montclair against the rest of the country
Montclair's risk sits at a similar level relative to Virginia (13th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (23rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Montclair ranks 24,345 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,951 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 590 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Montclair and the insurance market
At the 23rd national percentile, Montclair rates moderate 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
With 39% of Montclair 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 Montclair's 24,345-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Montclair, see the exposure-zones guide.