Mount Blanchard, OH
How exposed is Mount Blanchard to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mount Blanchard at the 3rd national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 325 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mount Blanchard at the 3rd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Mount Blanchard's buildings actually sit
Most of Mount Blanchard's buildings (89.5% of 325) 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.
How Mount Blanchard compares
Mount Blanchard scores 3rd nationally and 17th 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, Mount Blanchard ranks 30,681 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,967 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,056 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mount Blanchard
At the 3rd national percentile, Mount Blanchard rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 89.5% of Mount Blanchard 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.
Where Mount Blanchard's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mount Blanchard's 30,681-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mount Blanchard's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.