Lewisburg, WV
Lewisburg, WV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Lewisburg at the 62nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,965 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lewisburg at the 65th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 70.5% of Lewisburg's 1,965 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 29.5% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Lewisburg against the rest of the country
Lewisburg's risk sits at a similar level relative to West Virginia (52nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (62nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lewisburg ranks 12,150 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,576 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 206 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Lewisburg and the insurance market
Lewisburg's 62nd-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Lewisburg's 70.5% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,965 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lewisburg. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lewisburg, see the exposure-zones guide.