Grantsville, WV
Grantsville, WV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Grantsville at the 49th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 351 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Grantsville at the 49th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Grantsville's buildings actually sit
Most of Grantsville's buildings (74.6%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Grantsville against the rest of the country
Grantsville scores 49th nationally and 37th within West Virginia — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grantsville ranks 15,963 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,296 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 270 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Grantsville
Grantsville's elevated rating (49th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 74.6% of Grantsville'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Grantsville's 15,963-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Grantsville, see the exposure-zones guide.