Forest, OH
Forest, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Forest at the 2nd national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 923 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Forest's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 1st percentile nationally.
Where Forest's buildings actually sit
88.6% of Forest's 923 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 11.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Forest ranks
There's little gap between Forest's 2nd national percentile and its 9th percentile inside Ohio, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Forest ranks 31,054 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,531 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,140 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Forest and the insurance market
Forest's low wildfire rating (2nd 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 Forest
Even with 88.6% of Forest 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
Forest's 2nd-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 Forest, see the exposure-zones guide.