Savage Town, VA
Savage Town wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Savage Town at the 50th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 44 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Savage Town at the 47th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Savage Town's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 61.4% of Savage Town's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 38.6% Minimal share — a profile where 27 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Savage Town against the rest of the country
Savage Town scores 50th nationally and 52nd 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, Savage Town ranks 15,934 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,085 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 327 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
Savage Town's elevated wildfire rating (50th 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.
Hardening a home in Savage Town
Because Direct exposure dominates in Savage Town (61.4%), 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
Savage Town's 50th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Savage Town, see the exposure-zones guide.