Pigeon Creek, OH
Pigeon Creek, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pigeon Creek at the 30th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 401 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pigeon Creek at the 31st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Pigeon Creek's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Pigeon Creek: 92.3% of its 401 buildings, versus 5.5% Indirect and 2.2% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Pigeon Creek compares
Within Ohio, Pigeon Creek ranks higher (66th percentile) than it does nationally (30th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pigeon Creek ranks 22,037 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,192 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 433 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Pigeon Creek and the insurance market
Pigeon Creek's moderate wildfire rating (30th 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.
Hardening a home in Pigeon Creek
With 92.3% of Pigeon Creek in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Pigeon Creek's 30th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pigeon Creek, see the exposure-zones guide.