Shady Spring, WV
Shady Spring, WV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Shady Spring at the 62nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,960 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Shady Spring at the 64th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Shady Spring's buildings actually sit
1,960 buildings are counted in Shady Spring, and 68.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0.2% rated Minimal.
Where Shady Spring ranks
Shady Spring's risk sits at a similar level relative to West Virginia (53rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (62nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Shady Spring ranks 12,025 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,590 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 203 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shady Spring and the insurance market
Shady Spring's high rating (62nd 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.
Hardening a home in Shady Spring
Shady Spring's 68.6% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,960 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Shady Spring. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Shady Spring, see the exposure-zones guide.