Junior, WV
Junior wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Junior at the 46th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 258 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Junior's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 47th percentile nationally.
Where Junior's buildings actually sit
Of Junior's 258 counted buildings, 53.5% 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.
How Junior compares
Inside West Virginia, Junior sits at just the 31st percentile even though it scores 46th 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, Junior ranks 17,006 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,906 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 296 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Junior
Junior's elevated rating (46th 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
Junior's 53.5% 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.
Where Junior's figures come from
Junior's 46th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Junior's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.