Tioga, WV
Tioga, WV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Tioga at the 61st national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 62 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Tioga's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 63rd percentile nationally.
Tioga's building exposure, zone by zone
62 buildings are counted in Tioga, and 100% 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% rated Minimal.
How Tioga compares
There's little gap between Tioga's 61st national percentile and its 52nd 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, Tioga ranks 12,183 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,607 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 207 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tioga
Tioga's 61st-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.
Hardening a home in Tioga
Tioga's 100% 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
Tioga's 61st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Tioga, see the exposure-zones guide.