Kenton, OH
Kenton wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Kenton lands at the 2nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 4,351 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kenton at the 2nd percentile, close to its 2nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 4.3% of Kenton's 4,351 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 95.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Kenton ranks
Kenton scores 2nd nationally and 14th within Ohio — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kenton ranks 30,835 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,932 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,082 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 2nd national percentile, Kenton 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
Kenton's 95.8% 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 4,351 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kenton. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kenton, see the exposure-zones guide.