Brookhaven, WV
Brookhaven, WV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Brookhaven sits at the 45th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,575 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brookhaven at the 44th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Brookhaven's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 53.3% of Brookhaven's 2,575 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 46.7% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Brookhaven ranks
Inside West Virginia, Brookhaven sits at just the 29th percentile even though it scores 45th 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, Brookhaven ranks 17,351 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,150 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 304 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Brookhaven's elevated wildfire rating (45th 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
Because 53.3% of Brookhaven'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
Brookhaven's 45th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Brookhaven, see the exposure-zones guide.