Snowville, VA
Snowville, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Snowville at the 68th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 130 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Snowville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 70th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Snowville's 130 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Snowville compares
Snowville scores 68th nationally and 80th 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, Snowville ranks 10,229 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,737 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 139 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
Snowville's 68th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Snowville's 100% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 130 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Snowville. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Snowville, see the exposure-zones guide.