Danville, OH
Danville wildfire risk explained
Danville's 698 buildings earn a 28th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Danville at the 28th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Danville's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Danville's buildings (82.1%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Danville compares
Compare Danville's two percentiles: 61st within Ohio, only 28th nationally — a gap of 34 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Danville ranks 22,826 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,677 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 491 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Danville
At the 28th national percentile, Danville rates moderate 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 Danville
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Danville (82.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 698 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Danville. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Danville, see the exposure-zones guide.