Riner, VA
Riner, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Riner lands at the 68th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 488 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Riner at the 71st percentile, close to its 68th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
70.5% of Riner's 488 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 344 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 29.5% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Riner ranks
There's little gap between Riner's 68th national percentile and its 80th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Riner ranks 10,102 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,582 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 136 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Riner and the insurance market
Riner's 68th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Riner's 70.5% 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 Riner's 10,102-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Riner, see the exposure-zones guide.