Vienna, WV
Vienna wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Vienna at the 33rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 5,332 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Vienna at the 34th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Vienna's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 77.6% of Vienna's 5,332 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 7.7% Direct and 14.7% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 5,332 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Vienna compares
Vienna's 33rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 2nd ranking inside West Virginia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 31 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Vienna ranks 21,258 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,240 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 420 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Vienna
Vienna's moderate rating (33rd 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Vienna (77.6% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Vienna's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Vienna's 21,258-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Vienna's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.