Nassawadox, VA
Nassawadox, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Nassawadox at the 54th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 324 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Nassawadox at the 53rd national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Nassawadox's buildings actually sit
Most of Nassawadox's buildings (52.2%) 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 Nassawadox compares
Nassawadox scores 54th nationally and 60th 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, Nassawadox ranks 14,420 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,995 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 275 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Nassawadox and the insurance market
Nassawadox's elevated rating (54th 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 Nassawadox
Nassawadox's 52.2% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Nassawadox's 14,420-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Nassawadox, see the exposure-zones guide.