Mount Crawford, VA
Mount Crawford wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Mount Crawford at the 40th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 263 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mount Crawford's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 42nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 65.4% of Mount Crawford's 263 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 25.9% Direct and 8.8% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Mount Crawford compares
There's little gap between Mount Crawford's 40th national percentile and its 32nd percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Crawford ranks 19,052 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,762 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 465 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Mount Crawford and the insurance market
Mount Crawford's moderate rating (40th 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 Mount Crawford
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Mount Crawford (65.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Mount Crawford's 40th-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 Mount Crawford, see the exposure-zones guide.