Bowmans Crossing, VA
Bowmans Crossing, VA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Bowmans Crossing at the 62nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 292 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bowmans Crossing at the 62nd percentile, close to its 62nd-percentile risk score.
Where Bowmans Crossing's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Bowmans Crossing: 87.3% of its 292 buildings, versus 12.7% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Bowmans Crossing ranks
There's little gap between Bowmans Crossing's 62nd national percentile and its 69th percentile inside Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bowmans Crossing ranks 12,116 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,870 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 213 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bowmans Crossing
Bowmans Crossing's 62nd-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.
Hardening a home in Bowmans Crossing
With 87.3% of Bowmans Crossing 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 292 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bowmans Crossing. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bowmans Crossing, see the exposure-zones guide.