Chauncey, OH
Chauncey wildfire risk explained
Chauncey's 562 buildings earn a 41st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Chauncey's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 42nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
562 buildings are counted in Chauncey, and 77.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 22.2% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Chauncey compares
Compare Chauncey's two percentiles: 90th within Ohio, only 41st nationally — a gap of 49 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Chauncey ranks 18,633 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,378 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 130 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Chauncey
Chauncey's elevated wildfire rating (41st 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 77.8% of Chauncey's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Chauncey's 18,633-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Chauncey, see the exposure-zones guide.