North College Hill, OH
How exposed is North College Hill to wildfire?
North College Hill's 4,248 buildings earn a 12th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts North College Hill at the 14th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
North College Hill's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 12.2% of North College Hill's 4,248 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 87.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
North College Hill against the rest of the country
Compare North College Hill's two percentiles: 36th within Ohio, only 12th nationally — a gap of 24 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, North College Hill ranks 27,810 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,018 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 809 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
North College Hill and the insurance market
North College Hill's low rating (12th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
North College Hill's 87.8% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind North College Hill's 27,810-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond North College Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.