Gnadenhutten, OH
Gnadenhutten wildfire risk explained
Gnadenhutten's 804 buildings earn a 39th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Gnadenhutten at the 40th percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
Gnadenhutten's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 74.4% of Gnadenhutten's 804 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 25.6% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Gnadenhutten against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Gnadenhutten ranks higher (85th percentile) than it does nationally (39th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gnadenhutten ranks 19,232 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,602 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 188 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Gnadenhutten
At the 39th national percentile, Gnadenhutten rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Gnadenhutten's 74.4% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Gnadenhutten's 39th-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 Gnadenhutten, see the exposure-zones guide.