Bramwell, WV
How exposed is Bramwell to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bramwell at the 80th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 278 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 Bramwell at the 83rd percentile, close to its 80th-percentile risk score.
Bramwell's building exposure, zone by zone
278 buildings are counted in Bramwell, and 59.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 40.7% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Bramwell ranks
There's little gap between Bramwell's 80th national percentile and its 71st 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, Bramwell ranks 6,320 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,281 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 125 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bramwell
Bramwell's high rating (80th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 59.4% of Bramwell's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bramwell's 6,320-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Bramwell, see the exposure-zones guide.