Hendricks, WV
How exposed is Hendricks to wildfire?
Hendricks sits at the 61st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 204 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hendricks at the 58th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Hendricks's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Hendricks's 204 counted buildings, 50% 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.
Hendricks against the rest of the country
Hendricks scores 61st nationally and 51st 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, Hendricks ranks 12,434 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,712 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 214 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hendricks
Hendricks's 61st-percentile, 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Hendricks's 50% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hendricks's 12,434-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hendricks, see the exposure-zones guide.