Moundsville, WV
Moundsville, WV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Moundsville lands at the 38th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 5,800 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Moundsville at the 38th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Moundsville's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Moundsville's buildings (96.5%) 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. At 5,800 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Moundsville against the rest of the country
Inside West Virginia, Moundsville sits at just the 10th percentile even though it scores 38th 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, Moundsville ranks 19,589 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,978 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 388 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Moundsville
Moundsville's moderate rating (38th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Moundsville
Moundsville's 96.5% 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
Moundsville's 38th-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 Moundsville, see the exposure-zones guide.