Middleway, WV
Middleway, WV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Middleway lands at the 44th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 299 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 Middleway at the 46th percentile, close to its 44th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Middleway's 299 counted buildings, 85.3% 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 Middleway compares
Middleway's 44th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 26th ranking inside West Virginia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 18 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Middleway ranks 17,634 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,671 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 317 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Middleway
Middleway's elevated wildfire rating (44th 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.
Hardening a home in Middleway
With 85.3% of Middleway in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Middleway's 44th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Middleway, see the exposure-zones guide.