Verona, VA
How exposed is Verona to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Verona at the 62nd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,951 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 Verona at the 64th percentile, close to its 62nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 58.5% of Verona's 1,951 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 30.2% Direct and 11.3% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Verona ranks
Verona scores 62nd nationally and 69th within Virginia — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Verona ranks 12,117 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,614 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 214 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
Verona's high rating (62nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Verona
Verona's 58.5% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Verona's 62nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Verona, see the exposure-zones guide.