Rushmere, VA
How exposed is Rushmere to wildfire?
Rushmere sits at the 52nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 859 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Rushmere at the 51st national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 83.5% of Rushmere's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 15% Indirect share and far above its 1.5% Minimal share — a profile where 717 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Rushmere ranks
Rushmere scores 52nd nationally and 57th 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, Rushmere ranks 15,113 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,096 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 295 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
Rushmere's elevated rating (52nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Rushmere's 83.5% 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 Rushmere's 15,113-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Rushmere, see the exposure-zones guide.