Sugar Bush Knolls, OH
How exposed is Sugar Bush Knolls to wildfire?
Sugar Bush Knolls's 92 buildings earn a 40th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sugar Bush Knolls at the 42nd percentile, close to its 40th-percentile risk score.
Sugar Bush Knolls's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 89.1% of Sugar Bush Knolls's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 10.9% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 82 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Sugar Bush Knolls ranks
Compare Sugar Bush Knolls's two percentiles: 88th within Ohio, only 40th nationally — a gap of 48 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sugar Bush Knolls ranks 18,793 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,421 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 152 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sugar Bush Knolls
Sugar Bush Knolls's elevated wildfire rating (40th 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
Sugar Bush Knolls's 89.1% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 92 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sugar Bush Knolls. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sugar Bush Knolls, see the exposure-zones guide.