Clifton, WV
Clifton, WV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Clifton's 197 buildings earn a 39th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Clifton at the 40th percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
Where Clifton's buildings actually sit
197 buildings are counted in Clifton, and 75.6% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 24.4% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Clifton ranks
Inside West Virginia, Clifton sits at just the 11th 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, Clifton ranks 19,274 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,982 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 381 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Clifton
At the 39th national percentile, Clifton rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 75.6% of Clifton'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 197 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Clifton. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Clifton, see the exposure-zones guide.