Grandview Heights, OH
How exposed is Grandview Heights to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Grandview Heights lands at the 5th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 3,383 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Grandview Heights at the 8th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
Grandview Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
Grandview Heights rates 98.5% Minimal exposure against just 1.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 3,383 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Grandview Heights against the rest of the country
Grandview Heights's 25th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 5th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grandview Heights ranks 29,860 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,937 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 949 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 5th national percentile, Grandview Heights rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Grandview Heights's 98.5% 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.
Where Grandview Heights's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Grandview Heights's 29,860-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Grandview Heights's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.