Bergoo, WV
How exposed is Bergoo to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bergoo at the 53rd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 80 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Bergoo's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 52nd percentile nationally.
Where Bergoo's buildings actually sit
Of Bergoo's 80 counted buildings, 100% 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.
How Bergoo compares
Bergoo scores 53rd nationally and 40th within West 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, Bergoo ranks 14,894 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,903 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 258 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Bergoo and the insurance market
Bergoo's elevated rating (53rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Bergoo (100%), 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 Bergoo's 14,894-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bergoo, see the exposure-zones guide.