Rockwood, VA
Rockwood wildfire risk explained
Rockwood sits at the 21st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 3,957 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rockwood at the 23rd percentile, close to its 21st-percentile risk score.
Where Rockwood's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Rockwood: 76.8% of its 3,957 buildings, versus 8.5% Indirect and 14.7% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Rockwood ranks
There's little gap between Rockwood's 21st national percentile and its 12th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rockwood ranks 24,787 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,282 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 600 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rockwood
Rockwood's moderate wildfire rating (21st 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Rockwood's 76.8% 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.
Where Rockwood's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rockwood's 24,787-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Rockwood's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.