Shawnee Hills (Delaware), OH
Shawnee Hills (Delaware), OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Shawnee Hills (Delaware) at the 10th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 420 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Shawnee Hills (Delaware)'s burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 12th percentile nationally.
Shawnee Hills (Delaware)'s building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 77.6% of Shawnee Hills (Delaware)'s buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 22.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Shawnee Hills (Delaware) compares
Compare Shawnee Hills (Delaware)'s two percentiles: 32nd within Ohio, only 10th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Shawnee Hills (Delaware) ranks 28,249 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,822 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 856 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
At the 10th national percentile, Shawnee Hills (Delaware) 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
Shawnee Hills (Delaware)'s 77.6% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 420 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Shawnee Hills (Delaware). For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Shawnee Hills (Delaware), see the exposure-zones guide.