Franklin Furnace, OH
How exposed is Franklin Furnace to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Franklin Furnace lands at the 54th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 942 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Franklin Furnace at the 56th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Franklin Furnace's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 63.1% of Franklin Furnace's 942 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 34.1% Direct and 2.9% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Franklin Furnace against the rest of the country
Compare Franklin Furnace's two percentiles: 98th within Ohio, only 54th nationally — a gap of 45 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Franklin Furnace ranks 14,600 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,374 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 23 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Franklin Furnace
Franklin Furnace's elevated rating (54th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Franklin Furnace (63.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Franklin Furnace's 54th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Franklin Furnace, see the exposure-zones guide.