Donnelsville, OH
Donnelsville, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Donnelsville lands at the 11th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 188 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Donnelsville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 12th percentile nationally.
Donnelsville's building exposure, zone by zone
Donnelsville rates 62.2% Minimal exposure against just 37.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 188 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Donnelsville compares
Within Ohio, Donnelsville ranks higher (35th percentile) than it does nationally (11th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Donnelsville ranks 27,964 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,326 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 826 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Donnelsville
Donnelsville's low wildfire rating (11th 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
Even with 62.2% of Donnelsville outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Donnelsville's 27,964-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Donnelsville, see the exposure-zones guide.