Nutter Fort, WV
How exposed is Nutter Fort to wildfire?
Nutter Fort's 871 buildings earn a 31st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Nutter Fort at the 32nd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Nutter Fort's building exposure, zone by zone
871 buildings are counted in Nutter Fort, and 92.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 7.4% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Nutter Fort compares
Inside West Virginia, Nutter Fort sits at just the 1st percentile even though it scores 31st 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, Nutter Fort ranks 21,699 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,980 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 425 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Nutter Fort
Nutter Fort's moderate wildfire rating (31st 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
Nutter Fort's 92.7% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 871 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Nutter Fort. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Nutter Fort, see the exposure-zones guide.