Kinsman Center, OH
Kinsman Center, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Kinsman Center's 397 buildings earn a 31st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kinsman Center at the 32nd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Kinsman Center's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 69.3% of Kinsman Center's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 30.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 275 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Kinsman Center compares
Within Ohio, Kinsman Center ranks higher (68th percentile) than it does nationally (31st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kinsman Center ranks 21,716 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,279 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 406 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Kinsman Center and the insurance market
Kinsman Center's moderate wildfire rating (31st 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.
Hardening a home in Kinsman Center
Because Direct exposure dominates in Kinsman Center (69.3%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 397 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kinsman Center. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Kinsman Center, see the exposure-zones guide.