Omar, WV
How exposed is Omar to wildfire?
USFS scores Omar at the 95th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 246 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Omar at the 97th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Omar's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Omar's 246 counted buildings, 74% 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.
Where Omar ranks
Omar's risk sits at a similar level relative to West Virginia (97th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (95th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Omar ranks 1,466 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,281 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 15 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Omar
Omar's 95th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Omar (74%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Omar's figures come from
Omar's 95th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Omar's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.