Buckeye Lake, OH
How exposed is Buckeye Lake to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Buckeye Lake at the 6th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,671 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Buckeye Lake at the 7th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Buckeye Lake's buildings (93.3% of 1,671) 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.
Buckeye Lake against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Buckeye Lake ranks higher (27th percentile) than it does nationally (6th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Buckeye Lake ranks 29,544 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,520 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 925 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 6th national percentile, Buckeye Lake 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
Even with 93.3% of Buckeye Lake 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Buckeye Lake's 29,544-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Buckeye Lake, see the exposure-zones guide.