Stickleyville, VA
Stickleyville wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Stickleyville at the 86th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 270 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Stickleyville at the 89th percentile, close to its 86th-percentile risk score.
Stickleyville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 99.6% of Stickleyville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0.4% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 269 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Stickleyville ranks
Stickleyville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Virginia (96th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (86th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Stickleyville ranks 4,299 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,522 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 27 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Stickleyville and the insurance market
Stickleyville's 86th-percentile, very 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
With 99.6% of Stickleyville 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 270 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Stickleyville. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Stickleyville, see the exposure-zones guide.