Hessville, OH
How exposed is Hessville to wildfire?
USFS scores Hessville at the 5th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 140 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hessville at the 4th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Hessville rates 83.6% Minimal exposure against just 16.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 140 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Hessville against the rest of the country
Hessville's 24th-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, Hessville ranks 30,052 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,293 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 966 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hessville
At the 5th national percentile, Hessville 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
Hessville's 83.6% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 140 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Hessville. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hessville, see the exposure-zones guide.