Whitesville, VA
How exposed is Whitesville to wildfire?
USFS scores Whitesville at the 57th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 139 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Whitesville at the 55th percentile, close to its 57th-percentile risk score.
Whitesville's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Whitesville's 139 counted buildings, 50.4% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Whitesville compares
Whitesville scores 57th nationally and 63rd 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, Whitesville ranks 13,664 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,347 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 254 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Whitesville
Whitesville's elevated rating (57th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 50.4% of Whitesville 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.
Where Whitesville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Whitesville's 13,664-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Whitesville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.