Hunting Valley, OH
Hunting Valley wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Hunting Valley at the 32nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 643 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 Hunting Valley at the 34th percentile, close to its 32nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 98.1% of Hunting Valley's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 1.9% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 631 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Hunting Valley compares
Compare Hunting Valley's two percentiles: 70th within Ohio, only 32nd nationally — a gap of 38 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hunting Valley ranks 21,402 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,287 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 375 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Hunting Valley and the insurance market
Hunting Valley's moderate wildfire rating (32nd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 98.1% of Hunting Valley 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.
Where Hunting Valley's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hunting Valley's 21,402-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Hunting Valley's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.