Cedar Grove, WV
Cedar Grove, WV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Cedar Grove's 470 buildings earn a 93rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Cedar Grove's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 94th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Cedar Grove's buildings (71.3%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Cedar Grove compares
Cedar Grove's risk sits at a similar level relative to West Virginia (90th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (93rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cedar Grove ranks 2,286 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,888 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 45 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cedar Grove
Cedar Grove's 93rd-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Cedar Grove
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Cedar Grove (71.3% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Cedar Grove's 93rd-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 Cedar Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.