Bowersville, OH
Bowersville wildfire risk explained
Bowersville sits at the 2nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 234 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bowersville at the 2nd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 18% of Bowersville's 234 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 82.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Bowersville ranks
There's little gap between Bowersville's 2nd national percentile and its 9th percentile inside Ohio, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bowersville ranks 31,053 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,679 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,139 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Bowersville and the insurance market
Bowersville's low rating (2nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Bowersville
With 82.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Bowersville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Bowersville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bowersville's 31,053-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bowersville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.