Hanging Rock, OH
How exposed is Hanging Rock to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hanging Rock lands at the 57th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 162 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hanging Rock's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 57th percentile nationally.
Hanging Rock's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Hanging Rock's buildings (64.2%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Hanging Rock against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Hanging Rock ranks higher (99th percentile) than it does nationally (57th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hanging Rock ranks 13,595 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,350 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 13 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hanging Rock
Hanging Rock's elevated wildfire rating (57th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 64.2% of Hanging Rock's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hanging Rock's 13,595-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hanging Rock, see the exposure-zones guide.