Jacksonburg, WV
How exposed is Jacksonburg to wildfire?
Jacksonburg's 132 buildings earn a 48th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Jacksonburg at the 47th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Jacksonburg's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Jacksonburg's 132 counted buildings, 73.5% 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.
Jacksonburg against the rest of the country
Jacksonburg scores 48th nationally and 35th 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, Jacksonburg ranks 16,533 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,647 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 282 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Jacksonburg
Jacksonburg's elevated rating (48th 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 Direct exposure dominates in Jacksonburg (73.5%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Jacksonburg's 16,533-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Jacksonburg, see the exposure-zones guide.