Tunnelton, WV
Tunnelton, WV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Tunnelton at the 40th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 159 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Tunnelton's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 40th percentile nationally.
Tunnelton's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Tunnelton: 51.6% of its 159 buildings, versus 48.4% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Tunnelton compares
Inside West Virginia, Tunnelton sits at just the 14th percentile even though it scores 40th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tunnelton ranks 18,926 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,509 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 367 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Tunnelton and the insurance market
Tunnelton's moderate rating (40th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Tunnelton's 51.6% 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
Tunnelton's 40th-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 Tunnelton, see the exposure-zones guide.