Mount Vernon, OH
Mount Vernon, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mount Vernon at the 29th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 7,941 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mount Vernon's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 30th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Mount Vernon (64.8% of 7,941 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 15.1% sit in the Direct zone. At 7,941 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Mount Vernon compares
Mount Vernon's 63rd-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 29th 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 Vernon ranks 22,481 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,131 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 470 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Mount Vernon and the insurance market
Mount Vernon's moderate rating (29th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 64.8% of Mount Vernon's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Mount Vernon's figures come from
Mount Vernon's 29th-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 Mount Vernon's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.