Barboursville, VA
Barboursville wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Barboursville at the 46th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 205 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 Barboursville at the 45th percentile, close to its 46th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Barboursville's 205 counted buildings, 75.6% 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.
Barboursville against the rest of the country
Barboursville scores 46th nationally and 45th 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, Barboursville ranks 17,191 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,679 by building count (1 is largest). Within Virginia alone, it ranks 375 of 681 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Virginia on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 46th national percentile, Barboursville rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Barboursville (75.6%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Barboursville's 17,191-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Barboursville, see the exposure-zones guide.