Shenandoah, VA
Shenandoah wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Shenandoah at the 64th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,426 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Shenandoah at the 64th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Shenandoah's buildings actually sit
80.6% of Shenandoah's 1,426 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 19.4% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Shenandoah against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Shenandoah's 64th national percentile and its 73rd percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Shenandoah ranks 11,489 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,501 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 183 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Shenandoah
Shenandoah's high rating (64th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Shenandoah
Because 80.6% of Shenandoah's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Shenandoah's 11,489-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Shenandoah, see the exposure-zones guide.