Rocky Mount, VA
How exposed is Rocky Mount to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Rocky Mount lands at the 43rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 2,472 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 Rocky Mount at the 45th percentile, close to its 43rd-percentile risk score.
Rocky Mount's building exposure, zone by zone
2,472 buildings are counted in Rocky Mount, and 55.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 44.2% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Rocky Mount ranks
There's little gap between Rocky Mount's 43rd national percentile and its 39th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rocky Mount ranks 17,917 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,354 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 417 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rocky Mount
At the 43rd national percentile, Rocky Mount rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 55.8% of Rocky Mount's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Rocky Mount's figures come from
Rocky Mount's 43rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Rocky Mount's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.