Anawalt, WV
Anawalt, WV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Anawalt sits at the 85th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 145 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Anawalt at the 87th percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
Where Anawalt's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Anawalt: 86.2% of its 145 buildings, versus 13.8% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Anawalt against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Anawalt's 85th national percentile and its 73rd percentile inside West Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Anawalt ranks 4,806 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,105 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 116 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Anawalt and the insurance market
Anawalt's 85th-percentile, very 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 86.2% of Anawalt 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 Anawalt's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Anawalt's 4,806-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Anawalt's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.