Pratt, WV
Pratt, WV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Pratt sits at the 91st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 303 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pratt at the 92nd percentile, close to its 91st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Pratt (86.1% of 303 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 13.5% sit in the Direct zone.
How Pratt compares
There's little gap between Pratt's 91st national percentile and its 85th 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, Pratt ranks 2,790 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,561 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 66 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Pratt and the insurance market
Pratt's very high rating (91st 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Pratt's 86.1% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pratt's 2,790-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pratt, see the exposure-zones guide.