Moorefield, VA
How exposed is Moorefield to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Moorefield lands at the 11th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 338 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 Moorefield at the 11th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
Where Moorefield's buildings actually sit
Most of Moorefield's buildings (93.8% of 338) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Moorefield ranks
There's little gap between Moorefield's 11th national percentile and its 3rd percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Moorefield ranks 28,003 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,648 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 662 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Moorefield
At the 11th national percentile, Moorefield rates low 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
Moorefield's 93.8% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Moorefield's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Moorefield's 28,003-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Moorefield's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.