Lynchburg, OH
Lynchburg, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Lynchburg at the 6th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 822 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lynchburg at the 7th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.
Lynchburg's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 30.7% of Lynchburg's 822 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 69.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Lynchburg against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Lynchburg ranks higher (26th percentile) than it does nationally (6th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lynchburg ranks 29,641 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,427 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 936 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lynchburg
Lynchburg's low rating (6th 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 Lynchburg
With 69.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Lynchburg gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Lynchburg's 6th-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 Lynchburg, see the exposure-zones guide.