Tysons, VA
Tysons wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Tysons at the 12th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 2,640 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 Tysons at the 12th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 86.3% of Tysons's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 13.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Tysons compares
There's little gap between Tysons's 12th national percentile and its 3rd percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tysons ranks 27,623 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,032 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 659 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
At the 12th national percentile, Tysons rates low 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 86.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Tysons gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Tysons's 12th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Tysons, see the exposure-zones guide.