Hockingport, OH
Hockingport, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hockingport at the 41st national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 249 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hockingport at the 42nd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Hockingport's buildings actually sit
Of Hockingport's 249 counted buildings, 54.2% carry Direct exposure and only 6.8% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Hockingport against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Hockingport ranks higher (89th percentile) than it does nationally (41st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hockingport ranks 18,696 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,177 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 136 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Hockingport and the insurance market
Hockingport's elevated wildfire rating (41st 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
With 54.2% of Hockingport 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 249 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Hockingport. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hockingport, see the exposure-zones guide.