Cynthiana, OH
Cynthiana, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Cynthiana's 65 buildings earn a 42nd-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cynthiana at the 46th percentile, close to its 42nd-percentile risk score.
Where Cynthiana's buildings actually sit
87.7% of Cynthiana's 65 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 12.3% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Cynthiana compares
Compare Cynthiana's two percentiles: 94th within Ohio, only 42nd nationally — a gap of 51 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cynthiana ranks 18,159 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,473 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 81 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Cynthiana and the insurance market
Cynthiana's elevated wildfire rating (42nd 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.
Hardening a home in Cynthiana
Because 87.7% of Cynthiana'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 Cynthiana's 18,159-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Cynthiana, see the exposure-zones guide.