Boyce, VA
How exposed is Boyce to wildfire?
Boyce's 333 buildings earn a 62nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Boyce's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 65th percentile nationally.
Boyce's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Boyce's 333 counted buildings, 53.8% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Boyce ranks
Boyce's risk sits at a similar level relative to Virginia (70th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (62nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Boyce ranks 11,895 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,746 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 203 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Boyce and the insurance market
Boyce'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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 53.8% of Boyce 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 Boyce's figures come from
Boyce's 62nd-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 Boyce's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.