Mount Hope, WV
Mount Hope, WV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mount Hope at the 68th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 858 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mount Hope's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 70th percentile nationally.
Where Mount Hope's buildings actually sit
Most of Mount Hope's buildings (72%) 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 Mount Hope ranks
Mount Hope's risk sits at a similar level relative to West Virginia (61st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (68th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Hope ranks 10,197 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,108 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 169 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Mount Hope and the insurance market
Mount Hope's high rating (68th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 72% of Mount Hope'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
Mount Hope's 68th-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 Mount Hope, see the exposure-zones guide.