Granville, OH
How exposed is Granville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Granville at the 32nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,897 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Granville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 33rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Granville: 55.3% of its 1,897 buildings, versus 44.7% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Granville against the rest of the country
Compare Granville's two percentiles: 69th within Ohio, only 32nd nationally — a gap of 38 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Granville ranks 21,498 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,781 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 386 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Granville
Granville's moderate wildfire rating (32nd 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
With 55.3% of Granville in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Granville's 21,498-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Granville, see the exposure-zones guide.