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Yorkshire wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Yorkshire at the 28th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 2,534 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Yorkshire at the 28th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
Yorkshire's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Yorkshire: 50.3% of its 2,534 buildings, versus 45.8% Indirect and 3.9% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Yorkshire ranks
Yorkshire's risk sits at a similar level relative to Virginia (18th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (28th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Yorkshire ranks 22,836 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,236 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 562 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Yorkshire and the insurance market
Yorkshire's moderate wildfire rating (28th 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.
Hardening a home in Yorkshire
Yorkshire's 50.3% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,534 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Yorkshire. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Yorkshire, see the exposure-zones guide.