Newsoms, VA
Newsoms, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Newsoms lands at the 41st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 236 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 Newsoms at the 40th percentile, close to its 41st-percentile risk score.
Newsoms's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Newsoms's 236 counted buildings, 82.6% 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 Newsoms ranks
There's little gap between Newsoms's 41st national percentile and its 35th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Newsoms ranks 18,638 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,615 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 446 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Newsoms and the insurance market
Newsoms's elevated rating (41st 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 Newsoms
Because Direct exposure dominates in Newsoms (82.6%), 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 236 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Newsoms. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Newsoms, see the exposure-zones guide.