Quantico Base, VA
Quantico Base wildfire risk explained
Quantico Base's 1,361 buildings earn a 42nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Quantico Base at the 40th percentile, close to its 42nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,361 buildings are counted in Quantico Base, and 58.6% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 41.1% in Direct exposure or the 0.3% rated Minimal.
Quantico Base against the rest of the country
Quantico Base scores 42nd nationally and 37th 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, Quantico Base ranks 18,451 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,781 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 433 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Quantico Base
Quantico Base's elevated wildfire rating (42nd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Quantico Base
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Quantico Base (58.6% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,361 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Quantico Base. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Quantico Base, see the exposure-zones guide.