St. Johns, OH
St. Johns, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
St. Johns sits at the 2nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 154 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts St. Johns at the 2nd percentile, close to its 2nd-percentile risk score.
Where St. Johns's buildings actually sit
78.6% of St. Johns's 154 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 21.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
St. Johns against the rest of the country
There's little gap between St. Johns's 2nd national percentile and its 14th percentile inside Ohio, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, St. Johns ranks 30,837 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,719 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,084 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
St. Johns and the insurance market
St. Johns's low rating (2nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in St. Johns
St. Johns's 78.6% 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.
Where St. Johns's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind St. Johns's 30,837-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what St. Johns's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.