Eskdale, WV
How exposed is Eskdale to wildfire?
Eskdale sits at the 89th 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 107 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Eskdale at the 91st percentile, close to its 89th-percentile risk score.
Where Eskdale's buildings actually sit
Of Eskdale's 107 counted buildings, 78.5% 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 Eskdale compares
Eskdale's risk sits at a similar level relative to West Virginia (79th 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, Eskdale ranks 3,419 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,756 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 89 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Eskdale and the insurance market
At the 89th percentile nationally, Eskdale carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Eskdale's 78.5% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Eskdale'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 direct exposure implies beyond Eskdale, see the exposure-zones guide.