Bowling Green, OH
Bowling Green wildfire risk explained
Bowling Green 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 8,810 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bowling Green at the 2nd percentile, close to its 2nd-percentile risk score.
Bowling Green's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 93% of Bowling Green's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 8,810 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Bowling Green ranks
Bowling Green's risk sits at a similar level relative to Ohio (10th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (2nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bowling Green ranks 31,028 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,890 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,133 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 2nd national percentile, Bowling Green 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 93% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Bowling Green gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Bowling Green's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bowling Green's 31,028-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bowling Green's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.