Danville, WV
Danville, WV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Danville lands at the 89th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 318 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Danville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 91st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
318 buildings are counted in Danville, and 81.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 18.9% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Danville compares
Danville's risk sits at a similar level relative to West Virginia (78th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (89th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Danville ranks 3,608 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,167 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 95 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
Danville's 89th-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 Danville
Because 81.1% of Danville'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
Danville's 89th-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 Danville, see the exposure-zones guide.