Granville, WV
Granville, WV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Granville at the 30th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 508 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Granville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 31st percentile nationally.
Granville's building exposure, zone by zone
84.1% of Granville's 508 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 10.6% Direct and 5.3% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Granville against the rest of the country
Inside West Virginia, Granville sits at just the 1st percentile even though it scores 30th 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, Granville ranks 22,141 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,214 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 427 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
Granville's moderate rating (30th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Granville (84.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Granville's 22,141-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Granville, see the exposure-zones guide.