Sperryville, VA
How exposed is Sperryville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Sperryville lands at the 68th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 268 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sperryville at the 67th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Sperryville's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Sperryville: 69% of its 268 buildings, versus 31% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Sperryville compares
Sperryville 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, Sperryville ranks 9,977 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,593 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 135 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
Sperryville'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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 69% of Sperryville 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.
More on how this number was built
Sperryville's 68th-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 Sperryville, see the exposure-zones guide.