Miller, OH
How exposed is Miller to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Miller lands at the 61st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 291 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Miller at the 61st percentile, close to its 61st-percentile risk score.
Where Miller's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Miller: 63.2% of its 291 buildings, versus 36.8% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Miller ranks
Miller's 100th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 61st 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, Miller ranks 12,332 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,884 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 2 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
At the 61st percentile nationally, Miller carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Miller's 63.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Miller's 12,332-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Miller, see the exposure-zones guide.