Mount Victory, OH
Mount Victory wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Mount Victory at the 2nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 526 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mount Victory at the 2nd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Mount Victory's buildings actually sit
Mount Victory rates 82.3% Minimal exposure against just 17.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 526 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Mount Victory compares
Mount Victory scores 2nd nationally and 14th 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 Victory ranks 30,836 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,930 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,083 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mount Victory
At the 2nd national percentile, Mount Victory rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 82.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Mount Victory gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Mount Victory's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mount Victory's 30,836-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mount Victory's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.