Kirkersville, OH
Kirkersville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Kirkersville lands at the 8th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 328 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kirkersville at the 9th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Kirkersville's building exposure, zone by zone
63.1% of Kirkersville's 328 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 36.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Kirkersville against the rest of the country
Kirkersville's 29th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 8th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kirkersville ranks 29,006 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,878 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 898 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
Kirkersville's low rating (8th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Kirkersville
Kirkersville's 63.1% 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
Kirkersville's 8th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kirkersville, see the exposure-zones guide.