Sunbury, OH
How exposed is Sunbury to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Sunbury lands at the 16th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 2,324 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sunbury at the 18th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
2,324 buildings are counted in Sunbury, and 53.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 28.7% in Direct exposure or the 17.8% rated Minimal.
Sunbury against the rest of the country
Compare Sunbury's two percentiles: 45th within Ohio, only 16th nationally — a gap of 29 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sunbury ranks 26,417 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,655 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 701 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Sunbury and the insurance market
Sunbury's low wildfire rating (16th 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.
Hardening a home in Sunbury
Because 53.5% of Sunbury'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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sunbury's 26,417-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Sunbury, see the exposure-zones guide.