Berkey, OH
How exposed is Berkey to wildfire?
USFS scores Berkey at the 1st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 277 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Berkey at the 1st national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Berkey's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 32.1% of Berkey's 277 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 67.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Berkey against the rest of the country
Berkey scores 1st nationally and 7th within Ohio — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Berkey ranks 31,178 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,299 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,179 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Berkey and the insurance market
At the 1st national percentile, Berkey rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 67.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Berkey gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Berkey's figures come from
Berkey's 1st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Berkey's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.