Minford, OH
How exposed is Minford to wildfire?
USFS scores Minford at the 52nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 550 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Minford at the 54th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
550 buildings are counted in Minford, and 57.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Minford compares
Compare Minford's two percentiles: 98th within Ohio, only 52nd nationally — a gap of 46 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Minford ranks 15,043 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,571 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 26 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Minford
Minford's elevated wildfire rating (52nd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Minford's 57.6% 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
Minford's 52nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Minford, see the exposure-zones guide.