Wattsville, VA
Wattsville, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Wattsville's 941 buildings earn a 67th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Wattsville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 64th percentile nationally.
Where Wattsville's buildings actually sit
Of Wattsville's 941 counted buildings, 63.7% carry Direct exposure and only 0.1% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Wattsville against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Wattsville's 67th national percentile and its 79th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wattsville ranks 10,321 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,390 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 142 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
Wattsville's 67th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
With 63.7% of Wattsville 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.
More on how this number was built
Wattsville's 67th-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 Wattsville, see the exposure-zones guide.