Chippewa Park, OH
Chippewa Park, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Chippewa Park sits at the 3rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,040 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Chippewa Park at the 4th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Chippewa Park's buildings actually sit
Chippewa Park rates 91.4% Minimal exposure against just 8.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,040 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Chippewa Park against the rest of the country
Compare Chippewa Park's two percentiles: 19th within Ohio, only 3rd nationally — a gap of 16 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Chippewa Park ranks 30,525 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,655 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,027 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Chippewa Park
Chippewa Park's low wildfire rating (3rd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 91.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Chippewa Park gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Chippewa Park's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Chippewa Park's 30,525-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Chippewa Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.