Dixie, WV
Dixie wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Dixie at the 94th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 222 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Dixie at the 95th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Dixie's 222 counted buildings, 88.7% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Dixie compares
Dixie scores 94th nationally and 94th within West Virginia — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dixie ranks 1,907 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,066 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 26 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dixie
Dixie's 94th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 88.7% of Dixie in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 222 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Dixie. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Dixie, see the exposure-zones guide.