Brook Park, OH
Brook Park wildfire risk explained
Brook Park's 12,364 buildings earn a 24th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brook Park at the 25th national percentile — 1 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
Most of Brook Park's buildings (98.7% of 12,364) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 12,364 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Brook Park against the rest of the country
Brook Park's 56th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 24th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brook Park ranks 23,991 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,249 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 551 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
Brook Park's moderate wildfire rating (24th 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 98.7% of Brook Park 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.
Where Brook Park's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 12,364 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Brook Park. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brook Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.