Grafton, OH
Grafton wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Grafton at the 30th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,481 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Grafton's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 30th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Grafton rates 76.2% Minimal exposure against just 22.8% Direct and 1.1% Indirect — of 1,481 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Grafton compares
Compare Grafton's two percentiles: 64th within Ohio, only 30th nationally — a gap of 35 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grafton ranks 22,197 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,248 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 452 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Grafton and the insurance market
At the 30th national percentile, Grafton rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Grafton
Grafton's 76.2% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,481 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Grafton. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Grafton, see the exposure-zones guide.