Bon Aqua Junction, TN
Bon Aqua Junction wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bon Aqua Junction at the 48th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 647 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 Bon Aqua Junction at the 50th percentile, close to its 48th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
97.1% of Bon Aqua Junction's 647 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 628 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 2.9% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Bon Aqua Junction compares
Bon Aqua Junction's risk sits at a similar level relative to Tennessee (39th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (48th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bon Aqua Junction ranks 16,558 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,238 by building count (1 is largest). Within Tennessee alone, it ranks 307 of 502 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Tennessee on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bon Aqua Junction
At the 48th national percentile, Bon Aqua Junction rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Bon Aqua Junction
Bon Aqua Junction's 97.1% 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
Bon Aqua Junction's 48th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bon Aqua Junction, see the exposure-zones guide.