Glen Fork, WV
Glen Fork wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Glen Fork at the 91st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 292 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Glen Fork at the 93rd percentile, close to its 91st-percentile risk score.
Glen Fork's building exposure, zone by zone
70.2% of Glen Fork's 292 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 205 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 29.8% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Glen Fork against the rest of the country
Glen Fork's risk sits at a similar level relative to West Virginia (84th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (91st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glen Fork ranks 2,821 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,872 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 68 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
Glen Fork's 91st-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.
Hardening a home in Glen Fork
With 70.2% of Glen Fork 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.
Where Glen Fork's figures come from
Glen Fork's 91st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Glen Fork's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.