Bon Air, VA
Bon Air, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bon Air at the 21st national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 6,870 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Bon Air's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 23rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
6,870 buildings are counted in Bon Air, and 73.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 11.2% rated Minimal. At 6,870 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Bon Air against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Bon Air's 21st national percentile and its 12th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bon Air ranks 24,786 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,521 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 599 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
Bon Air's moderate rating (21st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 73.2% of Bon Air in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Bon Air's figures come from
Bon Air's 21st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bon Air's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.