Mount Orab, OH
Mount Orab wildfire risk explained
Mount Orab sits at the 15th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,965 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mount Orab at the 16th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Mount Orab's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 62.4% of Mount Orab's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 35.3% Direct and 2.3% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Mount Orab against the rest of the country
Mount Orab's 42nd-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 15th 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, Mount Orab ranks 26,922 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,575 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 731 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mount Orab
Mount Orab's low rating (15th 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 Mount Orab
With 62.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Mount Orab 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
Mount Orab's 15th-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 Mount Orab, see the exposure-zones guide.