Warfield, VA
How exposed is Warfield to wildfire?
Warfield's 108 buildings earn a 47th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Warfield's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 48th percentile nationally.
Where Warfield's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 94.4% of Warfield's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 5.6% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 102 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Warfield compares
There's little gap between Warfield's 47th national percentile and its 48th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Warfield ranks 16,623 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,718 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 354 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
Warfield's elevated rating (47th 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
Warfield's 94.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Warfield's 47th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Warfield, see the exposure-zones guide.