Falls View, WV
Falls View, WV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Falls View sits at the 92nd 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 126 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 Falls View at the 93rd percentile, close to its 92nd-percentile risk score.
Falls View's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 61.1% of Falls View's 126 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 34.1% Direct and 4.8% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Falls View ranks
Falls View's risk sits at a similar level relative to West Virginia (86th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (92nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Falls View ranks 2,600 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,924 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 58 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Falls View
Falls View's 92nd-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 ember exposure the dominant pattern in Falls View (61.1% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 126 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Falls View. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Falls View, see the exposure-zones guide.