Parrott, VA
Parrott wildfire risk explained
Parrott's 299 buildings earn a 70th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Parrott's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 71st percentile nationally.
Parrott's building exposure, zone by zone
81.6% of Parrott's 299 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 244 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 18.4% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Parrott ranks
Parrott scores 70th nationally and 83rd within Virginia — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Parrott ranks 9,438 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,670 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 119 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Parrott and the insurance market
Parrott's 70th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Parrott (81.6%), 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Parrott's 9,438-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Parrott, see the exposure-zones guide.