Cherry Grove, OH
Cherry Grove wildfire risk explained
Cherry Grove's 1,711 buildings earn a 13th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cherry Grove at the 14th percentile, close to its 13th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 28.9% of Cherry Grove's 1,711 buildings carry Direct exposure and 4% carry Indirect; the remaining 67% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Cherry Grove compares
Within Ohio, Cherry Grove ranks higher (38th percentile) than it does nationally (13th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cherry Grove ranks 27,554 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,380 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 785 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 13th national percentile, Cherry Grove 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
With 67% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Cherry Grove gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cherry Grove's 27,554-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Cherry Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.