Vansant, VA
Vansant, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Vansant's 425 buildings earn a 93rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Vansant's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 94th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
425 buildings are counted in Vansant, and 50.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 49.2% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Vansant ranks
There's little gap between Vansant's 93rd national percentile and its 99th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Vansant ranks 2,379 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,755 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 6 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Vansant and the insurance market
At the 93rd percentile nationally, Vansant carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Vansant (50.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Vansant's 2,379-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Vansant, see the exposure-zones guide.