Bland, VA
Bland, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Bland sits at the 78th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 398 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Bland's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 79th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Bland: 58.5% of its 398 buildings, versus 41.5% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Bland ranks
There's little gap between Bland's 78th national percentile and its 91st percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bland ranks 7,106 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,255 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 61 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Bland's 78th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Bland's 58.5% 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 Bland's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bland's 7,106-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bland's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.