State guide

Restaurant health inspection grades in Virginia

Coverage: 7 of 133 counties and cities · Fairfax, Roanoke City, Roanoke +4 more · more coming

GradeLocal lists 5,158 Virginia restaurants. Their average score is 80.0, a B. This guide explains who inspects them, what the results mean and how the grades break down.

5,158restaurants listed

80.0 · Baverage score

7counties covered

Oct 20, 2026latest inspection date

See every Virginia grade

Who inspects restaurants in Virginia

Fairfax County Health Department for Fairfax County, Fairfax City and Falls Church City, with results of Passed, Partial Pass or Failed; and the Virginia Department of Health for Roanoke City, Roanoke County, Salem City and Botetourt County, with violation counts.

Coverage: Fairfax County, Fairfax City, Falls Church City, Roanoke City, Roanoke County, Salem City and Botetourt County, 7 of 133 counties. All sources

Roanoke City, Roanoke County, Salem City and Botetourt County (partial list): Virginia Department of Health, Alleghany/Roanoke district (Roanoke City & Alleghany Health Districts), from the VDH public inspection lookup (inspections.myhealthdepartment.com). GradeLocal works out the letter from the violations on the latest inspection: 0 is an A, 1 to 2 is a B, 3 to 5 is a C, and 6 or more is a D. Public records; no reuse terms posted.

What Virginia publishes

The agencies behind our Virginia listings publish pass or fail results and violation counts. None of them publish a score out of 100, so every Virginia score on GradeLocal is a GradeLocal score, worked out from the official result.

How GradeLocal grades Virginia restaurants

For violation counts, we count every violation in the latest inspection. None is an A, 1 or 2 is a B, 3 to 5 is a C, and 6 or more is a D. An emergency closure order is also a D. An inspection marked Failed is a D.

Results with no score of their own get a set score for each letter: A is 95, B is 85, C is 72 and D is 50.

There are four letters, A to D, with no F. The same rule applies in every state, and the cutoffs are never adjusted for a state, county or city. We always use the latest inspection.

How grades work has the full rules.

Most common official results in our Virginia data, and the letter each became
Official result	Letter	Listings
Passed	A	1,187
Passed	B	901
Passed	C	658
No violations found	A	457
Partial Pass	D	325
Passed	D	317
Partial Pass	C	273
1 violation found	B	177

286 listings have no result we can turn into a letter: 233 No result recorded, 30 Passed and 23 Partial Pass. Those listings show “Not graded”. The average above leaves them out.

How Virginia restaurants grade

The latest grade for each of the 5,158 listings.

1,663

32.2% · grade A

1,331

25.8% · grade B

1,133

22.0% · grade C

745

14.4% · grade D

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286

5.5% · not graded

Inspection dates in our Virginia data run from Sep 27, 2024 to Oct 20, 2026. 4,849 of the 5,158 listings (94.0%) were inspected in the 12 months before Oct 20, 2026, our latest record. A restaurant may have been inspected again since.

Top-rated places in Virginia

Every A-grade place in our Virginia data gets the same GradeLocal score (95), so this list shows the ten most recently inspected A-grade places, one per name.

A grade shows one inspection on one day. Check the official record linked on each page.

Counties in Virginia

Every county with at least one listing. Pick one to see its restaurants.

County	Restaurants	Average
Botetourt County	12	92.3 · A
Fairfax City	227	73.9 · C
Fairfax County	3,457	79.6 · C
Falls Church City	168	71.4 · C
Roanoke City	721	82.9 · B
Roanoke County	364	82.9 · B
Salem City	209	88.3 · B

Questions about Virginia grades

Who inspects restaurants in Virginia?

What does Virginia publish: a score, a letter or something else?

How does GradeLocal grade restaurants in Virginia?

For pass or fail results, a pass is an A, a pass with conditions or a required reinspection is a C, and a fail or a closure is a D. Fairfax, Fairfax City and Falls Church “Passed” visits are lettered by their violation count, using the violation rule: 1,187 A, 901 B, 658 C, 317 D. For violation counts, we count every violation in the latest inspection. None is an A, 1 or 2 is a B, 3 to 5 is a C, and 6 or more is a D. An emergency closure order is also a D. An inspection marked Failed is a D. Results with no score of their own get a set score for each letter: A is 95, B is 85, C is 72 and D is 50. We always use the latest inspection.

How many Virginia restaurants are on GradeLocal?

5,158 restaurants in 7 counties. The average score is 80.0, a B. 32.2% have an A.

How current are the Virginia grades?

Inspection dates in our Virginia data run from Sep 27, 2024 to Oct 20, 2026. We update each state’s records regularly, but there is always a delay, and a restaurant may have been inspected again since. For the latest official report, follow the agency link on each restaurant’s page.