Flatwoods, WV
Flatwoods wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Flatwoods at the 50th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 192 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Flatwoods at the 51st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Flatwoods's building exposure, zone by zone
52.6% of Flatwoods's 192 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 101 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 47.4% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Flatwoods against the rest of the country
Flatwoods's risk sits at a similar level relative to West Virginia (38th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (50th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Flatwoods ranks 15,713 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,180 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 268 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Flatwoods
Flatwoods's elevated wildfire rating (50th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 52.6% of Flatwoods 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
Flatwoods's 50th-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 Flatwoods, see the exposure-zones guide.