Oak Grove, VA
Oak Grove, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Oak Grove at the 8th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 426 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Oak Grove's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 8th percentile nationally.
Where Oak Grove's buildings actually sit
Only 4.5% of Oak Grove's 426 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 95.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Oak Grove compares
Oak Grove's risk sits at a similar level relative to Virginia (0th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (8th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Oak Grove ranks 28,949 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,738 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 679 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Oak Grove and the insurance market
Oak Grove's low rating (8th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Oak Grove's 95.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Oak Grove's 8th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Oak Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.