Greenview, WV
Greenview wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Greenview at the 92nd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 228 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Greenview's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 94th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Greenview: 99.1% of its 228 buildings, versus 0.9% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Greenview against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Greenview's 92nd national percentile and its 89th percentile inside West Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Greenview ranks 2,443 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,875 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 50 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Greenview
Greenview's 92nd-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 Greenview
With 99.1% of Greenview 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Greenview's 2,443-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Greenview, see the exposure-zones guide.