WildfireRiskFinder

Green Springs, OH

Green Springs, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers

Low
2ndpercentile nationally

Green Springs sits at the 2nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 729 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)

Separately from the risk score above, Green Springs's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 2nd percentile nationally.

Where Green Springs's buildings actually sit

729Total buildings
11.9%Direct exposure
0%Indirect exposure
88.1%Minimal exposure

Only 11.9% of Green Springs's 729 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 88.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.

Green Springs against the rest of the country

There's little gap between Green Springs's 2nd national percentile and its 14th percentile inside Ohio, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Green Springs ranks 30,870 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,352 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,089 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 2nd national percentile, Green Springs rates low 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 Green Springs

Even with 88.1% of Green Springs 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.

More on how this number was built

The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 729 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Green Springs. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Green Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.