Orient, OH
How exposed is Orient to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Orient lands at the 14th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 159 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Orient at the 16th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Orient's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Orient (44% of 159 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 26.4% sit in the Direct zone.
How Orient compares
Within Ohio, Orient ranks higher (42nd percentile) than it does nationally (14th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Orient ranks 26,957 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,490 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 736 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Orient's low wildfire rating (14th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 44% of Orient'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 Orient's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Orient's 26,957-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Orient's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.