Deep Water, WV
Deep Water wildfire risk explained
Deep Water sits at the 90th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 161 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Deep Water at the 91st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Deep Water's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 55.9% of Deep Water's 161 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 42.9% Direct and 1.2% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Deep Water ranks
Deep Water's risk sits at a similar level relative to West Virginia (82nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (90th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Deep Water ranks 3,040 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,412 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 77 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Deep Water
Deep Water's very high rating (90th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Deep Water (55.9% 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
Deep Water's 90th-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 Deep Water, see the exposure-zones guide.