New Richmond, WV
New Richmond, WV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts New Richmond at the 88th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 136 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts New Richmond at the 90th percentile, close to its 88th-percentile risk score.
New Richmond's building exposure, zone by zone
136 buildings are counted in New Richmond, and 80.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How New Richmond compares
There's little gap between New Richmond's 88th national percentile and its 77th percentile inside West Virginia, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Richmond ranks 3,798 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,475 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 99 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
New Richmond's very high rating (88th 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.
Hardening a home in New Richmond
New Richmond's 80.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
New Richmond's 88th-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 New Richmond, see the exposure-zones guide.