Paris, VA
Paris wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Paris at the 61st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 62 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 Paris at the 60th percentile, close to its 61st-percentile risk score.
Paris's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 90.3% of Paris's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 9.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 56 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Paris ranks
There's little gap between Paris's 61st national percentile and its 68th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Paris ranks 12,246 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,606 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 218 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Paris
Paris's high rating (61st percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Paris's 90.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Paris's 12,246-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Paris, see the exposure-zones guide.