Champion Heights, OH
Champion Heights, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Champion Heights at the 36th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 3,669 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Champion Heights's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 37th percentile nationally.
Champion Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 50.1% of Champion Heights's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 49.4% Indirect share and far above its 0.6% Minimal share — a profile where 1,837 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Champion Heights compares
Champion Heights's 78th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 36th 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, Champion Heights ranks 20,301 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,564 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 279 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Champion Heights
Champion Heights's moderate wildfire rating (36th 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Champion Heights (50.1%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Champion Heights's 20,301-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Champion Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.