Friendly, WV
How exposed is Friendly to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Friendly lands at the 41st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 105 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Friendly at the 42nd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Friendly's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 73.3% of Friendly's 105 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 26.7% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Friendly compares
Inside West Virginia, Friendly sits at just the 18th percentile even though it scores 41st nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Friendly ranks 18,581 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,826 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 353 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 41st national percentile, Friendly rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 73.3% of Friendly'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 105 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Friendly. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Friendly, see the exposure-zones guide.