Mannington, WV
Mannington, WV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Mannington lands at the 43rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,152 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mannington at the 43rd percentile, close to its 43rd-percentile risk score.
Mannington's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Mannington's buildings (77.6%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Mannington ranks
Inside West Virginia, Mannington sits at just the 23rd percentile even though it scores 43rd 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, Mannington ranks 18,013 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,949 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 329 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mannington
Mannington's elevated wildfire rating (43rd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 77.6% of Mannington's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Mannington's 43rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Mannington, see the exposure-zones guide.