Background. Gun violence is a public health crisis in the United States. Extreme risk protection orders, called substantial risk orders in Virginia, are a prevention tool that temporarily remove firearms from individuals at risk of harm to self or others. To date, no peer-reviewed papers have explored the use of substantial risk orders in Virginia. Methods. We reviewed risk order data from Virginia from July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2022. The risk order data included in this study was obtained from the Virginia State Police Criminal Justice Information Services Division. We calculated descriptive statistics for the number and type of risk order (in total and by locality), demographic variables (sex, race, and age), and incidence rates. Results. There were 281 emergency risk orders and 173 final risk orders between July 2020 and June 2022. Most risk order respondents were white males in their mid-to-late 30s. Fifty-eight of the 133 localities in our study reported at least one risk order. However, the ten localities that issued the greatest numbers of risk orders issued 73% of all emergency risk orders and 67.6% of all final risk orders. Across the 58 localities in our dataset, the average incidence of emergency risk orders was 3 per 100,000 people per year and the average incidence of final risk orders was 2 per 100,000 people per year. Conclusions. The risk order is a relatively new law in Virginia. Though many of the descriptive statistics we calculated in Virginia are similar to what we see in other states with this law, more time is needed to examine its impact on gun violence.