Tuckahoe, VA
Tuckahoe, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Tuckahoe at the 27th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 16,044 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Tuckahoe at the 28th percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
Tuckahoe's building exposure, zone by zone
16,044 buildings are counted in Tuckahoe, and 57.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 30.4% rated Minimal. At 16,044 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Tuckahoe against the rest of the country
Tuckahoe's risk sits at a similar level relative to Virginia (17th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (27th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tuckahoe ranks 23,145 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 911 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 568 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Tuckahoe and the insurance market
Tuckahoe's moderate rating (27th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 57.1% of Tuckahoe 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.
Where Tuckahoe's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tuckahoe's 23,145-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Tuckahoe's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.