Eleanor, WV
Eleanor, WV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Eleanor lands at the 60th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 945 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Eleanor at the 61st percentile, close to its 60th-percentile risk score.
Eleanor's building exposure, zone by zone
945 buildings are counted in Eleanor, and 74.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 25.2% in Direct exposure or the 0.1% rated Minimal.
Eleanor against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Eleanor's 60th national percentile and its 49th percentile inside West Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Eleanor ranks 12,624 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,346 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 218 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Eleanor
Eleanor's elevated wildfire rating (60th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 74.7% of Eleanor'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Eleanor's 12,624-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Eleanor, see the exposure-zones guide.