Oak Hill, OH
Oak Hill, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Oak Hill at the 52nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,033 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Oak Hill at the 55th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Oak Hill's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Oak Hill's buildings (83.3%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Oak Hill ranks
Compare Oak Hill's two percentiles: 98th within Ohio, only 52nd nationally — a gap of 46 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Oak Hill ranks 15,166 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,706 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 27 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Oak Hill and the insurance market
Oak Hill's elevated rating (52nd 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Oak Hill (83.3% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Oak Hill's 15,166-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Oak Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.