Grove City, OH
Grove City, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Grove City at the 8th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 15,029 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Grove City at the 10th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
Grove City's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 92.4% of Grove City's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 7.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 15,029 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Grove City compares
Within Ohio, Grove City ranks higher (29th percentile) than it does nationally (8th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grove City ranks 29,040 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 985 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 902 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Grove City and the insurance market
Grove City's low rating (8th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Grove City's 92.4% 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 Grove City's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 15,029 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Grove City. The exposure-zones guide covers what Grove City's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.