Iaeger, WV
Iaeger, WV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Iaeger lands at the 92nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 229 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Iaeger at the 94th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Iaeger's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Iaeger: 64.2% of its 229 buildings, versus 35.8% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Iaeger ranks
Iaeger's risk sits at a similar level relative to West Virginia (88th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (92nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Iaeger ranks 2,473 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,841 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 53 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Iaeger and the insurance market
Iaeger'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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 64.2% of Iaeger 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 229 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Iaeger. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Iaeger, see the exposure-zones guide.