Williamstown, WV
Williamstown, WV's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Williamstown lands at the 33rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,704 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Williamstown at the 34th percentile, close to its 33rd-percentile risk score.
Where Williamstown's buildings actually sit
1,704 buildings are counted in Williamstown, and 90.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 9.6% in Direct exposure or the 0.1% rated Minimal.
How Williamstown compares
Williamstown's 33rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 3rd ranking inside West Virginia does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 30 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Williamstown ranks 21,134 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,409 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 418 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Williamstown and the insurance market
At the 33rd national percentile, Williamstown rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Williamstown
Because 90.4% of Williamstown's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Williamstown's 33rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Williamstown, see the exposure-zones guide.