Sulphur Springs, OH
How exposed is Sulphur Springs to wildfire?
USFS scores Sulphur Springs at the 2nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 165 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sulphur Springs's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 2nd percentile nationally.
Where Sulphur Springs's buildings actually sit
Only 22.4% of Sulphur Springs's 165 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 77.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Sulphur Springs against the rest of the country
Sulphur Springs scores 2nd nationally and 11th within Ohio — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sulphur Springs ranks 31,000 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,233 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,129 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Sulphur Springs and the insurance market
Sulphur Springs'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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 77.6% of Sulphur Springs outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sulphur Springs's 31,000-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Sulphur Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.