Toms Brook, VA
How exposed is Toms Brook to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Toms Brook at the 64th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 147 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Toms Brook at the 65th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Toms Brook's buildings actually sit
Most of Toms Brook's buildings (65.3%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Toms Brook against the rest of the country
Toms Brook scores 64th nationally and 75th within Virginia — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Toms Brook ranks 11,267 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,001 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 173 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Toms Brook
At the 64th percentile nationally, Toms Brook carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Toms Brook
Toms Brook's 65.3% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Toms Brook's 64th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Toms Brook, see the exposure-zones guide.