Wolf Trap, VA
Wolf Trap, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wolf Trap at the 18th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 5,828 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wolf Trap at the 18th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Wolf Trap's buildings actually sit
5,828 buildings are counted in Wolf Trap, and 78% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 4% rated Minimal. At 5,828 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Wolf Trap compares
There's little gap between Wolf Trap's 18th national percentile and its 9th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wolf Trap ranks 25,797 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,958 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 621 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Wolf Trap and the insurance market
At the 18th national percentile, Wolf Trap rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Wolf Trap's 78% 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.
Where Wolf Trap's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wolf Trap's 25,797-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wolf Trap's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.