New Church, VA
New Church, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
New Church's 279 buildings earn a 63rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts New Church at the 63rd percentile, close to its 63rd-percentile risk score.
Where New Church's buildings actually sit
Of New Church's 279 counted buildings, 54.1% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where New Church ranks
New Church's risk sits at a similar level relative to Virginia (71st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (63rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Church ranks 11,772 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,245 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 199 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New Church
New Church's 63rd-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in New Church (54.1%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 279 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for New Church. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond New Church, see the exposure-zones guide.