Dent, OH
How exposed is Dent to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Dent lands at the 13th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 3,802 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dent's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 14th percentile nationally.
Dent's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Dent's 3,802 counted buildings, 57.4% carry Direct exposure and only 19.2% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Dent ranks
Within Ohio, Dent 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, Dent ranks 27,458 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,420 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 778 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
Dent's low rating (13th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Dent
Dent's 57.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Dent's 27,458-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Dent, see the exposure-zones guide.