Kingston, OH
Kingston wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kingston at the 14th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 730 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Kingston's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 17th percentile nationally.
Where Kingston's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 91.5% of Kingston's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 8.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Kingston ranks
Compare Kingston's two percentiles: 42nd within Ohio, only 14th nationally — a gap of 27 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kingston ranks 26,988 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,337 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 737 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kingston
Kingston's low rating (14th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Kingston's 91.5% 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 730 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kingston. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kingston, see the exposure-zones guide.