Stanleytown, VA
Stanleytown, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Stanleytown's 917 buildings earn a 32nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Stanleytown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 33rd percentile nationally.
Stanleytown's building exposure, zone by zone
89.4% of Stanleytown's 917 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 820 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 10.6% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Stanleytown compares
Stanleytown's risk sits at a similar level relative to Virginia (22nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (32nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Stanleytown ranks 21,320 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,584 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 529 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Stanleytown
At the 32nd national percentile, Stanleytown 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
Stanleytown's 89.4% 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
Stanleytown's 32nd-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 Stanleytown, see the exposure-zones guide.