Eccles, WV
How exposed is Eccles to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Eccles at the 70th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 258 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 Eccles at the 72nd percentile, close to its 70th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Eccles's 258 counted buildings, 72.1% 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 Eccles compares
Eccles's risk sits at a similar level relative to West Virginia (63rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (70th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Eccles ranks 9,629 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,905 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 160 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Eccles and the insurance market
Eccles's high rating (70th 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 72.1% of Eccles 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Eccles's 9,629-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Eccles, see the exposure-zones guide.