Osaka, VA
Osaka, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Osaka at the 93rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 107 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Osaka at the 95th percentile, close to its 93rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 100% of Osaka's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 107 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Osaka against the rest of the country
Osaka's risk sits at a similar level relative to Virginia (100th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (93rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Osaka ranks 2,159 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,755 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 4 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Osaka
Osaka's 93rd-percentile, very 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.
Hardening a home in Osaka
Because Direct exposure dominates in Osaka (100%), 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Osaka's 2,159-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Osaka, see the exposure-zones guide.