Dailey, WV
Dailey wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Dailey at the 61st national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 131 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 Dailey at the 61st percentile, close to its 61st-percentile risk score.
Dailey's building exposure, zone by zone
74.1% of Dailey's 131 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 97 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 26% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Dailey compares
Dailey's risk sits at a similar level relative to West Virginia (51st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (61st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dailey ranks 12,277 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,696 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 209 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dailey
Dailey's 61st-percentile, 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 Dailey
Dailey's 74.1% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Dailey's 12,277-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Dailey, see the exposure-zones guide.