Pleasant Valley, WV
How exposed is Pleasant Valley to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pleasant Valley at the 32nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,670 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 Pleasant Valley at the 33rd percentile, close to its 32nd-percentile risk score.
Where Pleasant Valley's buildings actually sit
71.3% of Pleasant Valley's 1,670 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 28.7% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Pleasant Valley ranks
Pleasant Valley's 32nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 1st ranking inside West Virginia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 30 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant Valley ranks 21,604 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,524 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 424 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pleasant Valley
Pleasant Valley's moderate rating (32nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 71.3% of Pleasant Valley'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.
Where Pleasant Valley's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,670 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pleasant Valley. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pleasant Valley's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.