Weyers Cave, VA
Weyers Cave, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Weyers Cave sits at the 50th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,355 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Weyers Cave at the 52nd percentile, close to its 50th-percentile risk score.
Where Weyers Cave's buildings actually sit
Most of Weyers Cave's buildings (48.1% of 1,355) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Weyers Cave ranks
Weyers Cave scores 50th nationally and 52nd 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, Weyers Cave ranks 15,871 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,812 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 325 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Weyers Cave
Weyers Cave's elevated wildfire rating (50th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 48.1% of Weyers Cave outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Weyers Cave's 50th-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 Weyers Cave, see the exposure-zones guide.