Spotsylvania Courthouse, VA
Spotsylvania Courthouse, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Spotsylvania Courthouse sits at the 40th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,644 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Spotsylvania Courthouse at the 41st percentile, close to its 40th-percentile risk score.
Where Spotsylvania Courthouse's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Spotsylvania Courthouse: 87% of its 2,644 buildings, versus 13.1% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Spotsylvania Courthouse ranks
Spotsylvania Courthouse scores 40th nationally and 32nd 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, Spotsylvania Courthouse ranks 18,958 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,028 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 461 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Spotsylvania Courthouse and the insurance market
At the 40th national percentile, Spotsylvania Courthouse rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 87% of Spotsylvania Courthouse 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
Spotsylvania Courthouse's 40th-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 Spotsylvania Courthouse, see the exposure-zones guide.