Grand River, OH
How exposed is Grand River to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Grand River at the 35th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 236 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Grand River at the 36th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Grand River's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 95.8% of Grand River's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 4.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Grand River compares
Within Ohio, Grand River ranks higher (76th percentile) than it does nationally (35th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grand River ranks 20,492 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,604 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 300 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Grand River
Grand River's moderate wildfire rating (35th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 95.8% of Grand River 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.
Where Grand River's figures come from
Grand River's 35th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Grand River's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.