Raymond City, WV
How exposed is Raymond City to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Raymond City at the 65th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 226 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Raymond City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 66th percentile nationally.
Raymond City's building exposure, zone by zone
226 buildings are counted in Raymond City, and 71.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 26.1% in Direct exposure or the 2.2% rated Minimal.
How Raymond City compares
There's little gap between Raymond City's 65th national percentile and its 58th 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, Raymond City ranks 10,954 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,935 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 180 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Raymond City
Raymond City's 65th-percentile, 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Raymond City (71.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 226 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Raymond City. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Raymond City, see the exposure-zones guide.