Red Jacket, WV
Red Jacket wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Red Jacket at the 95th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 337 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 Red Jacket at the 97th percentile, close to its 95th-percentile risk score.
Where Red Jacket's buildings actually sit
Of Red Jacket's 337 counted buildings, 88.1% 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.
Red Jacket against the rest of the country
Red Jacket's risk sits at a similar level relative to West Virginia (96th 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, Red Jacket ranks 1,624 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,671 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 18 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Red Jacket and the insurance market
Red Jacket's very high rating (95th 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Red Jacket (88.1%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 337 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Red Jacket. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Red Jacket, see the exposure-zones guide.