Star City, WV
Star City wildfire risk explained
Star City's 813 buildings earn a 28th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Star City at the 29th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Star City (97.3% of 813 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 2.3% sit in the Direct zone.
How Star City compares
Star City's 28th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 0th ranking inside West Virginia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 28 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Star City ranks 22,773 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,529 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 429 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Star City and the insurance market
Star City's moderate wildfire rating (28th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Star City
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Star City (97.3% 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 Star City's 22,773-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Star City, see the exposure-zones guide.