Rivesville, WV
Rivesville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Rivesville at the 41st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 513 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rivesville at the 43rd percentile, close to its 41st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
513 buildings are counted in Rivesville, and 79.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 20.1% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Rivesville ranks
Rivesville's 41st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 17th ranking inside West Virginia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 24 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rivesville ranks 18,644 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,140 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 358 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Rivesville and the insurance market
Rivesville's elevated rating (41st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Rivesville
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Rivesville (79.9% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rivesville's 18,644-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Rivesville, see the exposure-zones guide.