Bridgetown, OH
Bridgetown wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Bridgetown lands at the 12th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 6,089 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 Bridgetown at the 13th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Bridgetown rates 83.3% Minimal exposure against just 16.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 6,089 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 6,089 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Bridgetown compares
Within Ohio, Bridgetown ranks higher (35th percentile) than it does nationally (12th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bridgetown ranks 27,867 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,843 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 813 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Bridgetown and the insurance market
Bridgetown's low wildfire rating (12th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 83.3% of Bridgetown outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Bridgetown's 12th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bridgetown, see the exposure-zones guide.