Finneytown, OH
How exposed is Finneytown to wildfire?
Finneytown's 4,954 buildings earn a 12th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Finneytown at the 13th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Finneytown's buildings actually sit
Only 29.2% of Finneytown's 4,954 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 70.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Finneytown against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Finneytown ranks higher (37th percentile) than it does nationally (12th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Finneytown ranks 27,711 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,461 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 799 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Finneytown
Finneytown's low wildfire rating (12th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Finneytown's 70.8% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Finneytown's 12th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Finneytown, see the exposure-zones guide.