Hooven, OH
Hooven, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hooven at the 16th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 430 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hooven's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 18th percentile nationally.
Where Hooven's buildings actually sit
51.6% of Hooven's 430 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 222 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 48.1% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0.2% are Minimal.
How Hooven compares
Compare Hooven's two percentiles: 45th within Ohio, only 16th nationally — a gap of 29 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hooven ranks 26,352 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,656 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 694 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hooven
Hooven's low rating (16th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Hooven's 51.6% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Hooven's 16th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hooven, see the exposure-zones guide.