Sugar Grove, OH
How exposed is Sugar Grove to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sugar Grove at the 38th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 260 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sugar Grove at the 39th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Sugar Grove's building exposure, zone by zone
260 buildings are counted in Sugar Grove, and 77.3% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 22.7% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Sugar Grove ranks
Sugar Grove's 84th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 38th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sugar Grove ranks 19,451 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,833 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 209 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Sugar Grove and the insurance market
Sugar Grove's moderate rating (38th 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 Sugar Grove
Because 77.3% of Sugar Grove'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 Sugar Grove's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 260 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sugar Grove. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sugar Grove's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.