Seven Mile Ford, VA
How exposed is Seven Mile Ford to wildfire?
Seven Mile Ford's 383 buildings earn a 72nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Seven Mile Ford's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 75th percentile nationally.
Where Seven Mile Ford's buildings actually sit
Most of Seven Mile Ford's buildings (52.2%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Seven Mile Ford against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Seven Mile Ford's 72nd national percentile and its 86th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Seven Mile Ford ranks 8,808 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,581 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 96 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Seven Mile Ford and the insurance market
At the 72nd percentile nationally, Seven Mile Ford carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Seven Mile Ford's 52.2% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Seven Mile Ford's 8,808-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Seven Mile Ford, see the exposure-zones guide.