Forest Park, OH
Forest Park wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Forest Park at the 13th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 6,196 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Forest Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 15th percentile nationally.
Where Forest Park's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 81.3% of Forest Park's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 12.1% Direct and 6.7% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 6,196 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Forest Park ranks
Within Ohio, Forest Park 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, Forest Park ranks 27,555 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,800 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 786 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Forest Park
Forest Park'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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 81.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Forest Park gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Forest Park's 27,555-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Forest Park, see the exposure-zones guide.