Piney View, WV
Piney View wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Piney View at the 67th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 720 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 Piney View at the 68th percentile, close to its 67th-percentile risk score.
Piney View's building exposure, zone by zone
720 buildings are counted in Piney View, and 55.6% 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 Piney View compares
Piney View's risk sits at a similar level relative to West Virginia (60th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (67th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Piney View ranks 10,510 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,462 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 173 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Piney View
At the 67th percentile nationally, Piney View carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
With 55.6% of Piney View in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Piney View's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Piney View's 10,510-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Piney View's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.