Circleville, OH
How exposed is Circleville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Circleville lands at the 16th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 6,356 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Circleville at the 18th percentile, close to its 16th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 93.1% of Circleville's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 6.6% Direct and 0.4% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 6,356 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Circleville against the rest of the country
Circleville's 44th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 16th 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, Circleville ranks 26,609 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,724 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 713 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Circleville
At the 16th national percentile, Circleville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Circleville
With 93.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Circleville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Circleville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,356 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Circleville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Circleville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.