Masontown, WV
Masontown, WV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Masontown's 371 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 Masontown at the 49th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Masontown's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 74.9% of Masontown's 371 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 25.1% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Masontown ranks
Masontown's risk sits at a similar level relative to West Virginia (35th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (48th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Masontown ranks 16,438 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,850 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 280 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Masontown
Masontown's elevated wildfire rating (48th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Masontown's 74.9% 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
Masontown's 48th-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 Masontown, see the exposure-zones guide.