Kunkle, OH
How exposed is Kunkle to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kunkle at the 2nd national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 160 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kunkle at the 3rd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Kunkle's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 83.1% of Kunkle's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 16.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Kunkle compares
Kunkle scores 2nd nationally and 15th 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, Kunkle ranks 30,775 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,445 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,072 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Kunkle and the insurance market
Kunkle's low rating (2nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 83.1% of Kunkle outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Kunkle's 2nd-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 Kunkle, see the exposure-zones guide.