Mount Olive, VA
How exposed is Mount Olive to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mount Olive at the 72nd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 100 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mount Olive's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 71st percentile nationally.
Where Mount Olive's buildings actually sit
92% of Mount Olive's 100 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 92 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 8% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Mount Olive compares
Mount Olive scores 72nd nationally and 86th 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, Mount Olive ranks 8,713 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,060 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 95 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Mount Olive and the insurance market
Mount Olive's high rating (72nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Mount Olive
With 92% of Mount Olive 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 Mount Olive's 8,713-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Mount Olive, see the exposure-zones guide.