Shenandoah Farms, VA
How exposed is Shenandoah Farms to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Shenandoah Farms lands at the 59th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,762 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 Shenandoah Farms at the 58th percentile, close to its 59th-percentile risk score.
Where Shenandoah Farms's buildings actually sit
99.6% of Shenandoah Farms's 1,762 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 1,755 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0.4% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Shenandoah Farms ranks
Shenandoah Farms scores 59th nationally and 65th 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, Shenandoah Farms ranks 13,096 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,187 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 239 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shenandoah Farms and the insurance market
Shenandoah Farms's elevated wildfire rating (59th 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
With 99.6% of Shenandoah Farms in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Shenandoah Farms's figures come from
Shenandoah Farms's 59th-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 Shenandoah Farms's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.