Beech Bottom, WV
How exposed is Beech Bottom to wildfire?
Beech Bottom sits at the 39th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 303 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 Beech Bottom at the 41st percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
Where Beech Bottom's buildings actually sit
75.3% of Beech Bottom's 303 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 24.8% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Beech Bottom compares
Inside West Virginia, Beech Bottom sits at just the 12th percentile even though it scores 39th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Beech Bottom ranks 19,113 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,558 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 374 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Beech Bottom
Beech Bottom's moderate wildfire rating (39th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Beech Bottom (75.3% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Beech Bottom's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Beech Bottom's 19,113-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Beech Bottom's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.