Monfort Heights, OH
How exposed is Monfort Heights to wildfire?
Monfort Heights's 5,043 buildings earn a 13th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Monfort Heights at the 14th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Monfort Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Monfort Heights's buildings (52% of 5,043) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 5,043 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Monfort Heights ranks
Within Ohio, Monfort Heights ranks higher (38th percentile) than it does nationally (13th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Monfort Heights ranks 27,520 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,406 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 783 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Monfort Heights and the insurance market
Monfort Heights's low rating (13th 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 Monfort Heights
With 52% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Monfort Heights gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Monfort Heights's figures come from
Monfort Heights's 13th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Monfort Heights's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.