Round Hill, VA
Round Hill wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Round Hill at the 38th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 342 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Round Hill at the 37th percentile, close to its 38th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Round Hill's 342 counted buildings, 51.5% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Round Hill against the rest of the country
Round Hill's risk sits at a similar level relative to Virginia (29th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (38th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Round Hill ranks 19,526 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,536 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 481 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Round Hill's moderate wildfire rating (38th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Round Hill (51.5%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 342 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Round Hill. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Round Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.