Pimmit Hills, VA
Pimmit Hills, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Pimmit Hills sits at the 9th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,171 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pimmit Hills's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 10th percentile nationally.
Where Pimmit Hills's buildings actually sit
Pimmit Hills rates 61.5% Minimal exposure against just 38.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 2,171 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Pimmit Hills against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Pimmit Hills's 9th national percentile and its 1st percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pimmit Hills ranks 28,571 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,018 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 673 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Pimmit Hills and the insurance market
Pimmit Hills's low rating (9th 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
Even with 61.5% of Pimmit Hills outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Pimmit Hills's 9th-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 Pimmit Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.