Garten, WV
How exposed is Garten to wildfire?
Garten's 126 buildings earn a 72nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Garten at the 74th percentile, close to its 72nd-percentile risk score.
Garten's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Garten's 126 counted buildings, 100% 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 Garten compares
Garten's risk sits at a similar level relative to West Virginia (65th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (72nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Garten ranks 8,968 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,925 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 150 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Garten
Garten's high rating (72nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Garten's 100% 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.
Where Garten's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Garten's 8,968-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Garten's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.